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Of course, the accumulator changes either on the forward or reverse stroke, but not both. This mechanism is notably simple and relatively easy to manufacture. The Marchant, however, has, for every one of its ten columns of keys, a nine-ratio "preselector transmission" with its output spur gear at the top of the machine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_calculator |
A survival kit was also placed on board to assist Glenn while waiting for recovery after splashdown, including desalter kits, dye marker, distress signal, signal mirrors, signal whistle, first aid kits, shark chaser, a PK-2 raft, survival rations, matches, and a radio transceiver.Prior to MA-6, there had been a relucta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6 |
In the mathematical field of graph theory, the 26-fullerene graph is a polyhedral graph with V = 26 vertices and E = 39 edges. Its planar embedding has three hexagonal faces (including the one shown as the external face of the illustration) and twelve pentagonal faces. As a planar graph with only pentagonal and hexagon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26-fullerene_graph |
Between 1543 and 1549 Castel Novo, on the Vignole island, was developed into the Sant’Andrea fort. Between 1546 and 1574 Castel Novo at San Nicolò was developed into the San Nicolò fort. Between 1569 and 1574 the latter was strengthened with a triple ditch. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lido_di_Venezia |
Propaganda has become more common in political contexts, in particular, to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments, political groups, but also often covert interests. In the early 20th century, propaganda was exemplified in the form of party slogans. Propaganda also has much in common with public information ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_propaganda |
Noise pollution caused the nearly blind animal to collide with propellers. Stocks of the dolphin's prey declined drastically in the late 20th century, with some fish populations declining to one thousandth of their pre-industrial levels. In the 1950s, the population was estimated at 6,000 animals, but declined rapidly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphins |
A dislocated shoulder is a condition in which the head of the humerus is detached from the shoulder joint. Symptoms include shoulder pain and instability. Complications may include a Bankart lesion, Hill-Sachs lesion, rotator cuff tear, or injury to the axillary nerve.A shoulder dislocation often occurs as a result of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_dislocation |
The Javan slow loris (Nycticebus javanicus) replaced the Horton Plains slender loris (Loris tardigradus nycticeboides) because the former has been hit the hardest of Asian lorises, all of which are declining rapidly due primarily to capture for the exotic pet trade, as well as use in traditional medicines and forest lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_25_Most_Endangered_Primates |
Agent-based models and microsimulations of human behavior can be embedded in larger historical simulations. Related subfields are behavioral economics and human behavioral ecology. Data mining, web mining, predictive analytics Social media, web analytics, social networks Automated translation, natural language processi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_dynamics |
Other researchers were unable to prove Goldstein's studies to be true, therefore, his hypothesis is considered inaccurate. While Goldstein's hypothesis was never proven, his work encouraged further research into the physiological effects of color.Carl Jung is most prominently associated with the pioneering stages of co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology |
According to Patnaik, Hindutva has the following fascist ingredients: "an attempt to create a unified homogeneous majority under the concept of "the Hindus"; a sense of grievance against past injustice; a sense of cultural superiority; an interpretation of history according to this grievance and superiority; a rejectio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva |
Propylene glycol exhibits a low degree of toxicity toward aquatic organisms. Several guideline studies available for freshwater fish with the lowest observed lethal concentration of 96-h LC50 value of 40,613 mg/L in a study with Oncorhynchus mykiss. Similarly, the lethal concentration determined in marine fish is a 96-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_Glycol |
Two traditional grammatical terms refer to inflections of specific word classes: Inflecting a noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, article or determiner is known as declining it. The forms may express number, case, gender or degree of comparison. Inflecting a verb is called conjugating it. The forms may express tense, moo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_(linguistics) |
In a press release published that month, Peter Löscher, President and CEO of Siemens AG said: "This investment is another consequential step in further strengthening our green and sustainable technologies". Siemens now holds a 40% stake in the company.In January 2009, Siemens sold its 34% stake in Framatome, complainin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens |
A Berkovich tip is a type of nanoindenter tip used for testing the indentation hardness of a material. It is a three-sided pyramid which is geometrically self-similar. The popular Berkovich now has a very flat profile, with a total included angle of 142.3 degrees and a half angle of 65.27 degrees, measured from the axi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkovich_tip |
The stream consisted of text applicable to the viewer's location and a 4:3 video window of terrestrial TV from the relevant Southern Cross/Southern Cross Ten station. On February 25, 2008, MyTalk ceased broadcasting. Digital Forty Four was shut down at exactly midnight on the night of April 30, 2010. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacasting |
In modern tanks, the turret is armoured for crew protection and rotates a full 360 degrees carrying a single large-calibre tank gun, typically in the range of 105 mm to 125 mm calibre. Machine guns may be mounted inside the turret, which on modern tanks is often on a "coaxial" mount, parallel with the larger main gun. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_turret |
If one removes a piece from a figure, its area decreases but its perimeter may not. In the case of very irregular shapes, confusion between the perimeter and the convex hull may arise. The convex hull of a figure may be visualized as the shape formed by a rubber band stretched around it. In the animated picture on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perimeter |
Luhmann uses the operative distinction between system and environment to determine that society is a complex system which replicates the system/environment distinction to form internal subsystems. Science is among these internally differentiated social systems, and within this system is the sub-system sociology. Here, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology) |
In this system, the stub axle carrying the wheel was fixed to the bottom of a pillar which slid up and down through a bush in a transverse axle fixed to the front of the chassis. The top of the pillar was fixed and pivoted on a transverse semi-elliptic leaf spring. This system was copied by Sizaire-Naudin a few years l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_pillar |
Data obtained in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study demonstrated that only 20% of drug users ever experience an episode of drug abuse (Anthony & Helzer, 1991), while data obtained from the National Comorbidity Study demonstrated that only 15% of alcohol users and 15% of illicit drug users ever become dependent. A c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_medication |
Charcoal burns at temperatures exceeding 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,010 degrees Fahrenheit). By comparison, the melting point of iron is approximately 1,200 to 1,550 °C (2,190 to 2,820 °F). Due to its porosity, it is sensitive to the flow of air and the heat generated can be moderated by controlling the air flow to the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charcoal_maker |
All fixed-wing aircraft have a minimum speed at which they can maintain level flight, the stall speed (left limit line in the diagram). As the aircraft gains altitude the stall speed increases; since the wing is not growing any larger the only way to support the aircraft's weight with less air is to increase speed. Whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_envelope |
In Thailand, the ancestor of this elegant cat is known as the wichienmaat which means "moon diamond". The wichienmaat, along with other cats, was named, described and illustrated centuries ago in the "Tamra Maew" book of cat poems. Over the years, the wichienmaat has stayed true to its original breeding, which is still... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_cat |
: 112 German rocket scientists of Operation Paperclip arrived at Fort Bliss in January 1946 to assist the V-2 rocket testing program. After a static test firing of a V-2 engine on 15 March 1946, the first V-2 rocket launch from Launch Complex 33 was on 16 April 1946. As the possibilities of the program were realized, G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_sounding_rocket |
Test flights began in February 2016 to prepare for resumption of the circumnavigation once northern hemisphere days lengthened enough to permit multi-day solar-powered flights. A favourable weather window opened in April 2016, and the plane resumed its journey, landing at Moffett Field, in California, on 23 April. Duri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse |
In May 2016, Angela Ahrendts, Apple's then-Senior Vice President of retail, unveiled a significantly redesigned Apple Store in Union Square, San Francisco, featuring large glass doors for the entry, open spaces, and rebranded rooms. In addition to purchasing products, consumers can get advice and help from "Creative Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_store |
In 1603, "Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam", a famous Japanese-Portuguese dictionary, was compiled and published by Jesuit priests in Nagasaki. It contains short but clear definitions for about 20 words related to soyfoods—the first in any European language. The Luso-Hispanic traders were familiar with soybeans and soybe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean |
Dr. Alex Harris is the developer of Proteus IV, an extremely advanced and autonomous artificial intelligence program. Proteus is so powerful that only a few days after going online, it develops a groundbreaking treatment for leukemia. Harris, a brilliant scientist, has modified his own home to be run by voice-activated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Seed |
Lithium chloride and lithium bromide are hygroscopic and are used as desiccants for gas streams. Lithium hydroxide and lithium peroxide are the salts most used in confined areas, such as aboard spacecraft and submarines, for carbon dioxide removal and air purification. Lithium hydroxide absorbs carbon dioxide from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_salts |
The East Germany authorities eventually used seismographic and acoustic equipment to detect the practice. In 1962, they planned an attempt to use explosives to destroy one tunnel, but this was not carried out as it was apparently sabotaged by a member of the Stasi.An airborne escape was made by Thomas Krüger, who lande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall |
Their purpose shifted primarily to launching satellites, probes, crewed and uncrewed spacecraft, and other non-threatening payloads. The R-7 family consists of both missiles and orbital carrier rockets. Derivatives include the Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz rockets, which as of 2022 have been used for all Soviet, and later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korolyov_cross |
Benjamin Wallfisch, an Emmy and Ivor Novello-nominated composer, composed music for Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain. The film was slated to release in 2010 but the lack of response from the distributors delayed the release. On the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the chief minister of Madhy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal:_A_Prayer_for_Rain |
Kevin Ashton (born 1968) is a British technology pioneer who cofounded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which created a global standard system for RFID and other sensors. He is known for coining the term "the Internet of Things" to describe a system where the Internet is connected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ashton |
The political situation was also chaotic due to World War II. Vaidya was living with his wife Vidya and six-month-old daughter Kumud and surviving solely on his earlier savings. Gandhi went on a prolonged fast then, which led to a period of great uncertainty as the fast had affected his health adversely. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahalad_Chunnilal_Vaidya |
As a musician, Breeze came to prominence in the late 1990s when in the early years of his musical career he worked with poet-percussionist and Velvet Underground cofounder Angus MacLise. Breeze played electric viola, mandolin, guitar, bass and electronics. Footage of Breeze performing alongside Maclise was shown at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Breeze |
Yu, G. Murtaza New electron temperature-graduate, Fluid Physics (1989), P.K. Shukla and G. Murtaza Electron Thermal Conduction for nuclear radiation, Volume 33 (1991), Arshad M. Mirza, C. L. Cook, G. Murtaza and M.S.Qaisar. Duality of a young diagram in Linear Geometry (1973), Mathematical. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Murtaza_(physicist) |
The dinar (Arabic: دينار Dīnār Baḥrēnī) (sign: .د.ب or BD; code: BHD) is the currency of Bahrain. It is divided into 1000 fils (فلس). The Bahraini dinar is abbreviated د.ب (Arabic) or BD (Latin). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahraini_dinar |
Although it is common to allocate one task per physical or logical processor, the terms "task" and "processor" are not interchangeable. An activity that has business value, is initiated by a user, and is performed by software.In z/OS specifically, it is defined precisely as: "In a multiprogramming or multiprocessing en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_(computing) |
The troop trial rifles and ammunition were distributed to the musketry school at Hythe, to one squadron in each of three cavalry regiments, and to one company in each of eight infantry battalions. One of the cavalry squadrons was stationed in South Africa and one of the infantry companies was stationed in Egypt. The re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.276_Enfield |
William Draper Harkins (December 28, 1873 – March 7, 1951) was an American physical chemist, noted for his contributions to surface chemistry and nuclear chemistry. Harkins researched the structure of the atomic nucleus and was the first to propose the principle of nuclear fusion, four years before Jean Baptiste Perrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Draper_Harkins |
New Zealand adopted a similar system from 1870 under the Land Transfer Act, 1870 The Land Transfer (Compulsory Registration of Titles) Act 1924 brought most of the remaining land in the country under the Torrens system and by 1951 the register was considered complete, although small remnants of land may still exist und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title |
During this period, a methylation reaction will occur on the ribose. After the 8-hour period of methylation, the flask will be filled with 150 ml of ethyl acetate, 5 ml pyridine, and 30 g potassium carbonate. The flask will then be heated to 60-70 °C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-O-Acetyl-2,3,5-tri-O-benzoyl-beta-D-ribofuranose |
The theme is popular among adult fans, as well as children, and has spawned international associations and conventions. The train system is sometimes referred to as 'L-gauge' among Lego fans, in reference to traditional model railway scales. Lego trains use a nominal gauge of 37.5 mm (1+15⁄32 in), based on 5-stud track... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Trains |
The index is derived from a mathematical model of insulin-glucose homeostasis. For diagnostic purposes, it is calculated from fasting insulin and glucose concentrations with: G ^ R = G 1 P ( ∞ ) ( D R + ( ∞ ) ) G E ( ∞ ) ( ∞ ) − D R G E ( ∞ ) − 1 G E {\displaystyle {\widehat {G}}_{R}={\frac {{G}_{1}P(\infty )({D}_{... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPINA-GR |
The SEA primarily produced computers in small quantities, about a couple hundreds, and occasionally as one-of-a-kind units, most notably for military clients. Six major categories of computers stand out: Analog computers, from the OME and NADAC family Unique military models, such as the CUBA and CAB 1011 The CAB 2000 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_d'électronique_et_d'automatisme |
American and English dictionaries (Webster's, Oxford, Chambers, etc.) give the correct spelling, which is also used in the literature of industrial dyeing. It is well established that production of fuchsine results in development of bladder cancers by production workers. Production of magenta is listed as a circumstanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsine |
The concept of the World Team Battle (often referred to as WTB) has virtual tuners competing in teams for their country. The idea originated on the website PhotoshopedUp in 2008, where the competition was moved to PhotochopWorld in 2009 but only the first round was completed. Since 2009 and the subsequent closing of Ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_tuning |
But all of these releases had underwhelming box office returns and Disney canceled later big-screen re-releases, including Aladdin. With the unveiling of the DMR process (see below), Warner Bros. Pictures especially embraced the format beginning in 2003 with the two Matrix sequels, Reloaded and Revolutions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX_3D |
In anthropology and geography, a cultural area, cultural region, cultural sphere, or culture area refers to a geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture). Such activities are often associated with an ethnolinguistic group and with the territory it inhabits. Specific cultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_boundary |
Conjectures regarding extraterrestrial life have ensured a high profile for Europa and have led to steady lobbying for future missions. The aims of these missions have ranged from examining Europa's chemical composition to searching for extraterrestrial life in its hypothesized subsurface oceans. Robotic missions to Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Europa |
So while further studies take place the term Australian Plate will be used to simplify the tectonics as of the present and this view is not inconsistent with the latest reference frames used in recent plate modelling. The oceanic crust of the Macquarie Fault Zone as found at Macquarie Island was generated however at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Fault_Zone |
Let them be {\displaystyle } and {\displaystyle } for the random and internal distributions respectively. {\displaystyle } can be again divided into two sub-intervals {\displaystyle } and {\displaystyle } where x ∗ {\displaystyle x^{*}} is the mode of the fuzzy variable. Then, the α-cut for the RFV for the same val... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-fuzzy_variable |
On the other hand, big data may also introduce new problems, such as the multiple comparisons problem: simultaneously testing a large set of hypotheses is likely to produce many false results that mistakenly appear significant. Ioannidis argued that "most published research findings are false" due to essentially the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data_analysis |
The opening was similar to that of the primetime drama Peyton Place. For the last few years of the show, the theme song was the theme from the second movement of the Double Concerto by Johannes Brahms. The in-house organist was Charles Paul, later replaced (as Paul was at Love of Life) by Eddie Layton. Carey Gold provi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Storm |
Here is the beginning of a transliteration and translation by Alviero Niccacci from his article "The Stele of Mesha and the Bible: Verbal System and Narrativity" in Orientalia NOVA SERIES, Vol. 63, No. 3 (1994), pp. 226–248. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesha_Stele |
Competition with domestic livestock for grazing, and restricted access to water supplies caused by agricultural developments, pose further threats to the survival of this species. The African wild ass is legally protected in the countries where it is currently found, although these measures often prove difficult to enf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_ass |
The Biopharmaceutics Classification System is a system to differentiate drugs on the basis of their solubility and permeability.This system restricts the prediction using the parameters solubility and intestinal permeability. The solubility classification is based on a United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) aperture. The in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopharmaceutics_Classification_System |
On the other hand, object is good for implementing a model of an automaton. When the automata-based approach is used within an object-oriented language, an automaton model is usually implemented by a class, the state is represented with private fields of the class, and the step is implemented as a method; such a method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata-based_programming |
Layer 3, or VPRN (virtual private routed network), utilizes layer 3 VRF (VPN/virtual routing and forwarding) to segment routing tables for each customer utilizing the service. The customer peers with the service provider router and the two exchange routes, which are placed into a routing table specific to the customer.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLS_VPN |
The Hong Kong branch of g0v, known as g0vhk, was founded in 2016 by data scientist Ho Wa Wong. The g0v movement gained popularity in Hong Kong due to their work in aggregating candidate information in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections and disseminating disease prevention news during the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G0v |
In precise terms, D ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {D}}} is accepted with tolerance ϵ ≥ 0 {\displaystyle \epsilon \geq 0} if: ρ ( D ^ , D ) ≤ ϵ {\displaystyle \rho ({\hat {D}},D)\leq \epsilon } ,where the distance measure ρ ( D ^ , D ) {\displaystyle \rho ({\hat {D}},D)} determines the level of discrepancy between D ^ {\displa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_Bayesian_Computation |
Notker the German is a notable exception in his period: not only are his German compositions of high stylistic value, but his orthography is also the first to follow a strictly coherent system. Significant production of German texts only resumed during the reign of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (in the High Middle Ages). Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography |
In mathematical notation for numbers, a signed-digit representation is a positional numeral system with a set of signed digits used to encode the integers. Signed-digit representation can be used to accomplish fast addition of integers because it can eliminate chains of dependent carries. In the binary numeral system, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed-digit_representation |
Review by David Langford (1995) in SFX, #4 Review by Paul J. McAuley (1995) in Interzone, #100 October 1995 Review by Ian Covell (1995) in The Edge, Vol. 2, #1, November 1995 Review by Chris Amies (1995) in Vector 184 Summer 1995 Review by Tom Shippey (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1996 Revi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction |
The binary ferrous and ferric halides are well-known. The ferrous halides typically arise from treating iron metal with the corresponding hydrohalic acid to give the corresponding hydrated salts. Fe + 2 HX → FeX2 + H2 (X = F, Cl, Br, I)Iron reacts with fluorine, chlorine, and bromine to give the corresponding ferric ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_compounds |
Therefore, self-efficacy is an important factor influencing the effectiveness of perceived control. Blittner, Goldberg and Merbaum reasoned in 1978 that only if the person believes in their abilities and success, they can perform better or change behavior.A study by Sastry and Ross in 1998 concluded that there are cult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceived_control |
1980 saw the creation of Earth First!, a group with an ecocentric view of the world – believing in equality between the rights of humans to flourish, the rights of all other species to flourish and the rights of life-sustaining systems to flourish.In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, several events illustrated the magnitude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism |
The regulation of markets is to safeguard society and has been the mainstay of industrialized capitalist economic governance through the twentieth century. Karl Polanyi refers to this process as the 'embedding' of markets in society. Further, contemporary economic sociologists such as Neil Fligstein (in his 2001 Archit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_regulation |
Amphetamine, specifically the more dopaminergic dextrorotatory enantiomer (dextroamphetamine), is also used recreationally as a euphoriant and aphrodisiac, and like other amphetamines; is used as a club drug for its energetic and euphoric high. Dextroamphetamine (d-amphetamine) is considered to have a high potential fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine_aspartate_monohydrate |
The technology permits bioreactor operation with considerably higher mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) concentration than CAS systems, which are limited by sludge settling. The process is typically operated at MLSS in the range of 8,000–12,000 mg/L, while CAS are operated in the range of 2,000–3,000 mg/L. The elevat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Treatment |
The gag-anime series We Know You, Moonlight Mask-kun! (ごぞんじ!月光仮面くん - Gozonji! Gekkô Kamen-kun), a very comical take on the famous masked hero, was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, animated by Actas, and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 3, 1999 to March 26, 2000, with a total of 25 episodes. The opening theme song is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_Mask |
A common high level optimizer across the POWER and z/OS XL C/C++ compilers optimizes the source program using platform-agnostic optimizations such as interprocedural analysis, profile-directed feedback, and loop and vector optimizations. A low-level optimizer on each platform performs function-level optimizations and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_XL_C/C++_Compilers |
The Landweber iteration or Landweber algorithm is an algorithm to solve ill-posed linear inverse problems, and it has been extended to solve non-linear problems that involve constraints. The method was first proposed in the 1950s by Louis Landweber, and it can be now viewed as a special case of many other more general ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landweber_iteration |
In PAL-region territories, some video games featuring licensed music were affixed with the label in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Recordings with the Parental Advisory label are often released alongside a censored version that reduces or eliminates the objectionable material. Several retailers will distribute both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_Advisory |
In late 2005, Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract for upgrading engines and other systems. Pratt & Whitney, in a joint venture with Seven Q Seven (SQS), will produce and deliver JT8D-219 engines for the E-8s. Their greater efficiency will allow the Joint STARS to spend more time on station, take off from a wider ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-8_J-STARS |
For the special case where r is an integer, the negative binomial distribution is known as the Pascal distribution. It is the probability distribution of a certain number of failures and successes in a series of independent and identically distributed Bernoulli trials. For k + r Bernoulli trials with success probabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution |
The error rate of 'B' reads was roughly 3 phred scores lower the mean observed score of a given run. Starting in Illumina 1.8, the quality scores have basically returned to the use of the Sanger format (Phred+33).For raw reads, the range of scores will depend on the technology and the base caller used, but will typical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format |
SpoT mainly serves as a hydrolase in systems similar to E.coli where it is transcribed in addition to RelA . SpoT's hydrolase activity is Mn2+-dependent with a conserved His-Asp (HD) motif. Phosphate starvation is sensed by SpoT hydrolase to elevate (p)ppGpp, which induces IraP, a RssB antiadaptor that antagonizes RssB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpoT |
The Taurus molecular cloud (TMC-1) is an interstellar molecular cloud in the constellations Taurus and Auriga. This cloud hosts a stellar nursery containing hundreds of newly formed stars. The Taurus molecular cloud is only 140 pc (430 ly) away from Earth, making it possibly the nearest large star formation region. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurus_Molecular_Cloud_1 |
In total, 13,930 Unimog 405 of the LUG and UGN variants were made; the UGE is still in production (as of November 2022) and thus has varying production figures. The model designation (i.e. the sales designation) of all Unimog 405 vehicles is a three-digit number with a U-prefix, e.g. U 318. The only exception is the LU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimog_405 |
Haplogroup I is a descendant (subclade) of haplogroup N1a1b and sibling of haplogroup N1a1b1 (Olivieri 2013). It is believed to have arisen somewhere in West Asia between 17,263 and 24,451 years before present (BP) (Behar 2012b), with coalescence age of 20.1 thousand years ago (Olivieri 2013). It has been suggested tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I_(mtDNA) |
The P-waves and P–R intervals are variable due to a phenomenon called wandering atrial pacemaker (WAP). The electrical impulse is generated at a different focus within the atria of the heart each time. WAP is positive once the heart generates at least three different P-wave formations from the same ECG lead. Then, if t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifocal_atrial_tachycardia |
The spectrum allocated for GPS L1 use by the FCC is 1559 to 1610 MHz, while the spectrum allocated for satellite-to-ground use owned by Lightsquared is the Mobile Satellite Service band. Since 1996, the FCC has authorized licensed use of the spectrum neighboring the GPS band of 1525 to 1559 MHz to the Virginia company ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_Satellite |
According to Lieven Decock, Quine had accepted the need for abstract mathematical entities by the publication of his 1960 book Word and Object, in which he wrote "a thoroughgoing nominalist doctrine is too much to live up to". However, whilst he released suggestions of the indispensability argument in a number of paper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine–Putnam_indispensability_argument |
The state of the art results for multi-document summarization are obtained using mixtures of submodular functions. These methods have achieved the state of the art results for Document Summarization Corpora, DUC 04 - 07. Similar results were achieved with the use of determinantal point processes (which are a special ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_summarization |
GNZ was accused of preventing Olympic hopeful athletes from competing for months after they had reported their concerns. Concerned parents had sought legal advice, with an independent party concluding that GNZ's investigation had serious procedural and substantive flaws. It was revealed that GNZ did not have an indepen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_in_gymnastics |
In 2018, a report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature acknowledged that palm oil is much more efficient than other oils in terms of land and water usage; however, deforestation causes more biodiversity loss than switching to other oils. The biggest producers of palm oil are Indonesia, Malaysia, Thaila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_oil |
Flintlock muskets tended to be of large caliber and usually had no choke, allowing them to fire full-caliber balls. Military flintlock muskets tended to weigh approximately 10 pounds, (4.53 Kg) as heavier weapons were found to be too cumbersome, and lighter weapons were not rugged or heavy enough to be used in hand-to-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flintlock_musket |
Depending on the way they are transmitted, plant viruses are classified as non-persistent, semi-persistent and persistent. In non-persistent transmission, viruses become attached to the distal tip of the stylet of the insect and on the next plant it feeds on, it inoculates it with the virus. Semi-persistent viral trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_virus |
Just as the limit is a special case of the universal construction, so is the product. Starting with the definition given for the universal property of limits, take J {\displaystyle \mathbf {J} } as the discrete category with two objects, so that C J {\displaystyle \mathbf {C} ^{\mathbf {J} }} is simply the product cate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_product |
With the revival of natural colours, Gabbeh from Fars province soon were produced in a full range of colours. They met the Western demand for primitive, naïve folk art as opposed to elaborate commercialized designs, and gained high popularity. In the commercial production of today, the Gabbeh rug patterns remain simple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_carpets |
Appointed to a teaching position at Birkbeck College, University of London, Ferrier's focus turned from polysaccharides to monosaccharides. New laboratory tools and methods enabled their reactions and mechanisms to be studied like normal organic compounds, rather than a separate field, and he pioneered this approach. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Ferrier |
One of the names of plica in Polish was wieszczyca, "wieszcz" means bard, specifically, a folk poet with the gift of prophesy or a vampire-like living person. In German folklore, plica appears in one of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, in which a girl doesn't comb her hair for one year and finds golden coins in her pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_plait |
He discusses how interspecies hybrids are usually infertile, and how this can contribute to reproductive isolation. He then examines the purpose of animal coloration, including camouflage and mimicry, arguing that these are evidence of natural selection. He gives detailed examples of warning coloration and mimicry, dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism_(book) |
Some programming languages have a concept of exception handling for dealing with failure to return a value. The function returns in a defined way, but it does not return a value, so there is no need to invent a special value to return. A variation on this is signal handling, which is done at the operating system level ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_value |
Surveys show that 40 to 70 percent of those 65 years old and older suffer from chronic sleep disturbances. The elderly tend to go to bed early in the evening and wake earlier in the morning than younger adults. Furthermore, the elderly often wake several times throughout the night and have difficulty falling asleep. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighting_for_the_elderly |
When creating container classes in statically typed languages, it is inconvenient to write specific implementations for each datatype contained, especially if the code for each datatype is virtually identical. For example, in C++, this duplication of code can be circumvented by defining a class template: Above, T is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_algorithm |
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The UPU's Standards Board develops and maintains a growing number of international standards to improve the exchange of postal-related information between postal operators. It also promotes the compatibility of UPU and international postal initiatives. The organization works closely with postal handling organizations, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union |
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