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plants, accounting for 64.7% of the total in Jiangsu Province. Seven species such as Sphaerocarpus sinensis, Chinese Allium chinense, Ming Codonopsis, and Pterocarpus sinensis are national key protected rare and endangered plants. The city's forest coverage rate is 27.1%. Among wild animals, there are 795 species of in... | S7, Line S8 and Line S9. The city is planning to complete a 17-line Metro and light-rail system by 2030. The expansion of the Metro network will greatly facilitate intracity transport and reduce the currently heavy traffic congestion. Metro Nanjing's first subway officially opened on September 3, 2005. It is the sixth ... |
used the Ninth Fort as a prison for several years. From 1948 to 1958, farm organizations were managed from the Ninth Fort. In 1958, a museum was established in the Ninth Fort. In 1959, an exhibition was prepared in four cells, telling of the Nazi war crimes carried out in Lithuania. In 1960, the discovery, cataloging, ... | and by 1890 was encircled by eight forts and nine gun batteries. Construction of the Ninth Fort (its numerical designation having become its name) began in 1902 and was completed on the eve of World War I. From 1924 on, the Ninth Fort was used as the Kaunas City prison. During the years of Soviet occupation, 1940–1941,... |
orthography, which is given here. /V/ means that it is not clear which vowel should be reconstructed. For space reasons, Etruscan is not included, but the fact that it had /mi/ 'I' and /mini/ 'me' seems to fit the pattern reconstructed for Proto-Nostratic ideally, leading some to argue that the Aegean or Tyrsenian lang... | Similarly, Georgiy Starostin (2002) arrives at a tripartite overall grouping: he considers Afroasiatic, Nostratic and Elamite to be roughly equidistant and more closely related to each other than to anything else. Sergei Starostin's school has now re-included Afroasiatic in a broadly defined Nostratic, while reserving ... |
identifier assignment to multiple name issuing organisations whilst retaining global uniqueness. A central Registration authority registers the assigned namespace names allocated. Each namespace name is allocated to an organisation which is subsequently responsible for the assignment of names in their allocated namespa... | same for each subdelegation. An example of a recursive hierarchy is the Domain name system. An example of a non-recursive hierarchy are Uniform Resource Name representing an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) number. Namespace versus scope A namespace name may provide context (scope in computer science) to a na... |
of Assyria, while another account suggests that he wrote this passage as liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC. The book was introduced in Reformation theologian Calvin's Commentary as a complete and finished poem: There are indications that an acrostic underlies the present [text]. Thus 1:2 begins with the first l... | suggests that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC, just before the downfall of Assyria, while another account suggests that he wrote this passage as liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC. The book was introduced in Reformation theologian Calvin's Commentary as a complete and finished poem: There are... |
Roland Joffé, English-French director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 – Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter 1946 – Terry Branstad, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Governor of Iowa 1946 – Petra Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach 1947 – Rod Clements, British singer-songwriter, guitar... | concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic. 1940 – The Tartu Art Museum was established in Tartu, Estonia. 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. 1947 – American scientists John Bardeen and Walte... |
others blend elements of both and there is also a discernible influence of Scottish English. This reflects the fact that while the Scottish came in smaller numbers than the English and Irish, they had a large influence on Newfoundland society. The dialects that comprise Newfoundland English developed because of Newfoun... | L-darkness Some speakers of Newfoundland English have a weaker light () versus dark () distinction compared to the standard North American patterns, which may be due to Irish-settled varieties of English exhibiting light variants in both coda and onset positions. Vowels In much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair ... |
by the armies of the Roman Empire, the Black Standard famously carried by Muhammad which later became the flag of the Abbasid Caliphate, and the various "Raven banners" flown by Viking chieftains. Angelino Dulcert published a series of comprehensive Portolan charts in the 14th century AD, which famously showcased the f... | to be displayed as a generic symbol of the United States after the American Revolution, and the French Tricolor, which became a symbol of the Republic in the 1790s. Most countries of Europe standardised and codified the designs of their maritime flags as national flags, in the course of the 19th and early 20th centurie... |
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. 1852 – Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy mill... | of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville. 1868 – Camagüey, Cuba, revolts against Spain during the Ten Years' War. 1890 – City and South London Railway: Lon... |
series of offensive advertisements on social media promoting a fashion show in Shanghai, China, which was canceled. 2019 – The last Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia, Imam, dies, making the species officially extinct in the country. Births Pre-1600 870 – Alexander, Byzantine emperor (d. 913) 912 – Otto I, Holy Roman Empe... | lost son of King Edward IV of England. 1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland. 1601–1900 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship. 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West I... |
again locked out the players. The owners proposed reducing the players' share of hockey-related revenues from 57 percent to 47 percent. All games were cancelled up to January 14, 2013, along with the 2013 NHL Winter Classic and the 2013 NHL All-Star Weekend. On January 6, a tentative agreement was reached on a ten-year... | revenues were estimated at $2.27 billion. On September 16, 2012, the labour pact expired, and the league again locked out the players. The owners proposed reducing the players' share of hockey-related revenues from 57 percent to 47 percent. All games were cancelled up to January 14, 2013, along with the 2013 NHL Winter... |
rearranged to seat 16,000. The Jacobetti Center The Jacobetti Center is home to the Continuing Education and Workforce Development, which includes two departments: Engineering Technology and Technology and Occupational Sciences. A large lobby area, known as "the commons," provides tables and seating for studying, discu... | compete in the NCAA's Division II Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in basketball, football, golf, cross country, soccer, volleyball, track & field, and swimming/diving. The hockey program competes in Division I as a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The Nordic ski team competes in the ... |
song by Umphrey's McGee from their album Safety in Numbers NEMO Music Showcase and Conference, a former annual music event in Boston, Massachusetts Other uses in arts, entertainment and media Nemo (magazine), devoted to classic comic strips Nemo (1984 film), directed by Arnaud Sélignac Network for the Establishment and... | novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Mysterious Island (1875) Captain Nemo, in the Japanese animated series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1991) Little Nemo, protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay (1905) Nemo, a clown fish in the Disney film Finding Nemo (2003) an... |
medium including television (CBS Sunday Morning, The Today Show, The View, Sally Jessy Raphaël, and numerous appearances on Entertainment Tonight and ET Insider), newspapers and magazines (TV Guide, Playboy), and as guests on multiple radio shows, including Howard Stern. Similar shows In the late 1990s, British cable t... | 2001 this radio station based in Oslo, Norway began featuring stripping female weather readers in their broadcasts and on their website. A very similar phenomenon by the name "Noodie News" appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx and Crake. Počasíčko (diminutive of "weather") was Czech TV Nova's past-10PM ... |
the People's Republic of Bulgaria Treaties of Canada Treaties of Croatia Treaties of Cyprus Treaties of Czechoslovakia Treaties of the Czech Republic Treaties of Denmark Treaties of Estonia Treaties entered into by the European Union Treaties of Finland Treaties of France Treaties of Germany Treaties of Greece Treaties... | References External links Text. Ratifications. Environmental treaties Treaties concluded in 1988 Treaties entered into force in 1991 1991 in the environment 1988 in Bulgaria Nitrogen compounds Air pollution Treaties of Albania Treaties of Austria Treaties of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Treaties of Belgiu... |
the Pali Canon, this path factor is stated as: The prohibition on killing precept in Buddhist scriptures applies to all living beings, states Christopher Gowans, not just human beings. Bhikkhu Bodhi agrees, clarifying that the more accurate rendering of the Pali canon is a prohibition on "taking life of any sentient be... | to the Theravada commentarial tradition and the contemporary vipassana movement, the goal in this group of the Noble Eightfold Path is to develop clarity and insight into the nature of reality – dukkha, anicca and anatta, discard negative states and dispel avidya (ignorance), ultimately attaining nirvana. In the threef... |
not adhere to the IUCN definition, while some areas which adhere to the IUCN definition are not designated as national parks. Terminology As many countries do not adhere to the IUCN definition, the term “national park” may be used loosely. In the United Kingdom, and in some other countries such as Taiwan, a “national p... | pillage what they could from the area. Theodore Roosevelt and his newly formed Boone and Crockett Club successfully took the lead in protecting Yellowstone National Park from this plight, resulting in laws designed to conserve the natural resources in Yellowstone and other parks under the Government's purview. American... |
some countries they have some diplomatic privileges. In addition, the nuncio serves as the liaison between the Holy See and the Church in that particular nation, supervising the diocesan episcopate (usually a national or multinational conference of bishops which has its own chairman, elected by its members. The nuncio ... | in Catholic countries the nuncio often ranks above ambassadors in diplomatic protocol. A nuncio performs the same functions as an ambassador and has the same diplomatic privileges. Under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, to which the Holy See is a party, a nuncio is an ambassador like those from any o... |
Some paintings showed the hazards and tragedy of the community's life, such as women anxiously looking out to sea as the boats go out, or a young woman crying on hearing news of a disaster. Walter Langley is generally recognised as the pioneer of the Newlyn art colony and Stanhope Forbes, who settled there in 1884, as ... | present-day Newlyn School of Art was formed in 2011 with Arts Council funding providing art courses taught by many of the best-known artists working in Cornwall today. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lamorna, a nearby fishing village to the south, became popular with artists of the Newlyn School a... |
by educators, business leaders, lawyers and other supporters of the Transcendental Meditation movement. The party was active in many countries and delegates from 60 countries attended an international convention in Bonn, Germany in 1998. The party became largely inactive in the United States in 2004 and was discontinue... | health system of Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health and the five European candidates gained about 0.5% of first-preference votes cast. Burns, who also contested the 1999 Dublin South-Central by-election, spent only £163 on his campaign. After 1999, the party ceased to field candidates in Ireland. The amount of corporat... |
is (the is–ought problem). In using his categorical imperative, Kant deduced that experience was necessary for their application. But experience on its own or the imperative on its own could not possibly identify an act as being moral or immoral. We can have no certain knowledge of morality from them, being incapable o... | and/or suggest solutions for the proposed is–ought problem. Ralph McInerny suggests that ought is already bound up in is, in so far as the very nature of things have ends/goals within them. For example, a clock is a device used to keep time. When one understands the function of a clock, then a standard of evaluation is... |
the 1870s as Neapolitan-style ice cream. Early recipes used a variety of flavors; however, the number of three molded together was a common denominator, to resemble the Italian flag (cf. insalata tricolore). More than likely, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry became the standard for the reason that they were the most ... | ice cream consists of three layers, each of a different colour and flavour (chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla), moulded into a block and cut into slices. Neapolitan ice-cream makers were famous in Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, especially Tortoni, creator of numerous ice-cream cakes." John F. Mariani, in ... |
often referred to as the World Ocean or global ocean. This concept of a global ocean as a continuous body of water with relatively free interchange among its parts is of fundamental importance to oceanography. The major oceanic divisions are defined in part by the continents, various archipelagos, and other criteria: t... | geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth. Geology Geology is the science and study of the s... |
or Lunation Cycle is a number given to each lunation beginning from a certain one in history. Several conventions are in use. The most commonly used was the Brown Lunation Number (BLN), which defines lunation 1 as beginning at the first new moon of 1923, the year when Ernest William Brown's lunar theory was introduced ... | meaning of the term 'new moon', which is still sometimes used in calendrical, non-astronomical contexts, is the first visible crescent of the Moon after conjunction with the Sun. This thin waxing crescent is briefly and faintly visible as the Moon gets lower in the western sky after sunset. The precise time and even th... |
non-zero, a B-spline is a polynomial of degree . A B-spline is a continuous function at the knots. When all knots belonging to the B-spline are distinct, its derivatives are also continuous up to the derivative of degree . If the knots are coincident at a given value of , the continuity of derivative order is reduced b... | up to a scaling factor, a unique spline satisfying If we add the additional constraint that for all between the first and last knot, then the scaling factor of becomes fixed. The resulting spline functions are called B-splines. Alternatively, B-splines can be defined by construction by means of the Cox–de Boor recursio... |
Pole. Since 2002, the Russians have also annually established a base, Barneo, close to the Pole. This operates for a few weeks during early spring. Studies in the 2000s predicted that the North Pole may become seasonally ice-free because of Arctic ice shrinkage, with timescales varying from 2016 to the late 21st centur... | including expedition leader Roald Amundsen. Three prior expeditions – led by Frederick Cook (1908, land), Robert Peary (1909, land) and Richard E. Byrd (1926, aerial) – were once also accepted as having reached the Pole. However, in each case later analysis of expedition data has cast doubt upon the accuracy of their c... |
equal to one billionth (short scale) of a metre (). One nanometre can be expressed in scientific notation as , and as metres. History The nanometre was formerly known as the millimicrometre – or, more commonly, the millimicron for short – since it is of a micron (micrometre), and was often denoted by the symbol mμ or (... | scale of nanometres (see nanoscopic scale). Usage The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on an atomic scale: the diameter of a helium atom, for example, is about 0.06 nm, and that of a ribosome is about 20 nm. The nanometre is also commonly used to specify the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation near the... |
its investigations, the NTSB operates under the "party system", which utilizes the support and participation of industry and labor representatives with expertise specifically useful to its investigation. These individuals or organizations may be invited by the NTSB to become parties to the investigation, and participat... | realm of the NTSB's expertise, such as the crash of an Air Force transport plane in former Yugoslavia that took the lives of more than 30 Americans, including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Assistance to foreign governments The NTSB may assist in incident or accident investigations occurring outside the United States un... |
of a gene is often necessary for cellular differentiation. Histone variants Although histones are remarkably conserved throughout evolution, several variant forms have been identified. This diversification of histone function is restricted to H2A and H3, with H2B and H4 being mostly invariant. H2A can be replaced by H2... | observed as particles in the electron microscope by Don and Ada Olins in 1974, and their existence and structure (as histone octamers surrounded by approximately 200 base pairs of DNA) were proposed by Roger Kornberg. The role of the nucleosome as a general gene repressor was demonstrated by Lorch et al. in vitro, and ... |
Nordic skiing, a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing Nordic walking, a physical activity and a sport consisting of walking with poles similar to ski poles Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite fi... | with poles similar to ski poles Nordic Figure Skating Championships, an annual invitational elite figure skating competition, open only to skaters from Nordic countries Quebec Nordiques, an ice hockey team Places Nordic, Wyoming, a census-designated place in the United States Other uses Nordic Catholic Church, a church... |
from medical school. United States In the United States, a neurosurgeon must generally complete four years of undergraduate education, four years of medical school, and seven years of residency (PGY-1-7). Most, but not all, residency programs have some component of basic science or clinical research. Neurosurgeons may ... | cognition, vision, and hearing. It will also be conducted for procedures which the surgeon is trying to combat epileptic seizures. History The physician Hippocrates (460-370 BCE) made accounts of using different wines to sedate patients while trepanning. In 60 CE, Dioscorides, a physician, pharmacologist, and botanist,... |
in the evolution of the first-person shooter, and has been named one of the greatest in the genre. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time set the standard for future 3D action-adventure games and is considered by many to be one of the greatest games ever made. This trend followed Hiroshi Yamauchi's strategy, announced du... | CPU requiring a fraction of the resources—consuming only 0.5 watts of power instead of 1.5 to 2 watts, with an estimated target price of instead of –200. The company created a design proposal for a video game system, seeking an established partner in that market. Jim Clark, founder of SGI, offered the proposal to Tom K... |
as nano's maintainer. The license was also upgraded to GPL-3.0-or-later. The project is currently maintained by Benno Schulenberg. On version 2.6.0 in June 2016, the current principal developer and the other active members of the nano project decided in consensus to leave the GNU Project, because of their objections ov... | not impede the ability to enforce the GNU General Public License. The step was acknowledged by Debian and Arch Linux, while the GNU Project resisted the move and called it a "fork". On 19 August 2016, Chris Allegretta announced the return of the project to the GNU family, following concessions from GNU on copyright ass... |
decline of the harbour of Rotterdam. Construction began on 31 October 1863. The first phase consisted of the expropriation of farm lands from Rozenburg to Hook of Holland. During the second phase two dikes were built parallel to each other, which took 2 years. Caland proposed to extend the dikes 2 km into the sea to di... | of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, where the Nieuwe Waterweg connects to the Maasgeul. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine. The Nieuwe Waterweg, which opened in 1872 and has a length of approximately , was constructed to keep the city and port of Rotterdam accessible to seafaring ... |
the winners in the "internal" category was the Baguazhang master Fu Chen Sung. Sun Lutang Sun Lutang identified the following as the criteria that distinguish an internal martial art: An emphasis on the use of the mind to coordinate the leverage of the relaxed body as opposed to the use of strength. The internal develo... | (內家) is a term in Chinese martial arts, grouping those styles that practice neijing, usually translated as internal martial arts, occupied with spiritual, mental or qi-related aspects, as opposed to an "external" approach focused on physiological aspects. The distinction dates to the 17th century, but its modern applic... |
some other type of navigation system. The first inertial system is considered to be the V-2 guidance system deployed by the Germans in 1942. However, inertial sensors are traced to the early 19th century. The advantages INSs led their use in aircraft, missiles, surface ships and submarines. For example, the U.S. Navy d... | Methods of navigation have changed through history. Each new method has enhanced the mariner's ability to complete his voyage. One of the most important judgments the navigator must make is the best method to use. Some types of navigation are depicted in the table. The practice of navigation usually involves a combinat... |
biographies; memoirs; journalism; and historical, scientific, technical, or economic writings (including electronic ones). Journals, photographs, textbooks, travel books, blueprints, and diagrams are also often considered nonfictional. Including information that the author knows to be untrue within any of these works i... | a factual account of a subject. Distinctions The numerous literary and creative devices used within fiction are generally thought inappropriate for use in nonfiction. They are still present particularly in older works but they are often muted so as not to overshadow the information within the work. Simplicity, clarity ... |
Altamira, a nursing student and Bobby Shaftoe's Filipina lover. She becomes a member of the Philippine resistance movement during the Japanese occupation. Mother of Douglas MacArthur Shaftoe. Historical figures Fictionalized versions of several historical figures appear in the World War II storyline: Alan Turing, the c... | U-boat for much of the story, and later takes command of a new, advanced submarine fueled with hydrogen peroxide. Rudolf "Rudy" von Hacklheber, a non-Nazi German mathematician and cryptographer, who spent time attending Princeton University, where he had a romantic relationship with Alan Turing and befriended Waterhous... |
the question: ... have you embraced the new UNIX based MacOS X as the OS you want to use when you "Just want to go to Disneyland"? he replied: I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back. So a lot of In the Beginning...was the Command Line is now obsolete. I keep meaning to update it, but if ... | has simply accrued enough mindshare among the people to have them coming back. He compares Microsoft to Disney, in that both are selling a vision to their customers, who in turn "want to believe" in that vision. Stephenson relays his experience with the Debian bug tracking system (#6518). He then contrasts it with Micr... |
for Netscape, however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows. The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by the Netscape Communicator suite in 1997. Netscape Communicator's 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed Mozilla Application Suite, which was later rena... | Netscape Communicator and is most identified with the browser Firefox. Rise of Netscape When the consumer Internet revolution arrived in the mid-1990s, Netscape was well-positioned to take advantage of it. With a good mix of features and an attractive licensing scheme that allowed free use for non-commercial purposes, ... |
spinal cord. It is also used at most synapses that are "modifiable", i.e. capable of increasing or decreasing in strength. Modifiable synapses are thought to be the main memory-storage elements in the brain. Excessive glutamate release can overstimulate the brain and lead to excitotoxicity causing cell death resulting ... | precursor of serotonin is the amino acid tryptophan. Peptide transmitters, or neuropeptides, are protein transmitters that often are released together with other transmitters to have a modulatory effect. Purine neurotransmitters, like ATP, are derived from nucleic acids. Other neurotransmitters are made up of metabolic... |
Janet (1928), E. I. Emerson (1944), and John D. Clark (1950). Although the term is not used in the scientific literature either for a condensed form of matter, or as an element, there have been reports that, besides the free neutron, there may exist two bound forms of neutrons without protons. If neutronium were consid... | of neutrons. The word was coined by scientist Andreas von Antropoff in 1926 (before the 1932 discovery of the neutron) for the hypothetical "element of atomic number zero" (with zero protons in its nucleus) that he placed at the head of the periodic table (denoted by dash, no element symbol). However, the meaning of th... |
magnetic axis point towards them during the neutron star rotation. Therefore, periodic pulses are observed, at the same rate as the rotation of the neutron star. Non-pulsating neutron stars In addition to pulsars, non-pulsating neutron stars have also been identified, although they may have minor periodic variation in ... | the magnetic field is strong enough to stress the crust to the point of fracture. Fractures of the crust cause starquakes, observed as extremely luminous millisecond hard gamma ray bursts. The fireball is trapped by the magnetic field, and comes in and out of view when the star rotates, which is observed as a periodic ... |
Island, Nassau's harbour has a blend of old world and colonial architecture, and a busy port. The tropical climate and natural environment of the Bahamas have made Nassau an attractive tourist destination. Nassau developed directly behind the port area. New Providence provides 200 km2 of relatively flat and low-lying l... | time when Don Juan de Cagigal, governor-general of Cuba, attacked New Providence with 5,000 men. Andrew Deveaux, an American Loyalist who resettled on the island, set forth and recaptured the island for the British Crown with just 220 men and 150 muskets to face a force of 600 trained soldiers. Lord Dunmore governed th... |
role of the mute Mignon in Wim Wenders 1975 film The Wrong Move, in which at the age of 13 she was depicted topless. She later played one of the leading roles in Wenders' film Paris, Texas (1984) and appeared in his film Faraway, So Close (1993). In 1976, while still a teenager, Kinski had her first two major roles: in... | Time wrote that she was "simply ravishing, genuinely sexy and high-spirited without being painfully aggressive about it." The film also received a major international release from Columbia Pictures. Kinski met the director Roman Polanski at a party in 1976. He urged her to study method acting with Lee Strasberg in the ... |
Jews and other groups in the Soviet Union. 28 January 1946: Witness Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, member of the French Resistance and concentration camp survivor, testifies on the Holocaust, becoming the first Holocaust survivor to do so. 11–12 February 1946: Witness and former Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, who ha... | that the first trial (several were planned) would take place in Nuremberg. Most of the accused had previously been detained at Camp Ashcan, a processing station and interrogation center in Luxembourg, and were moved to Nuremberg for the trial. Participants Each of the four countries provided one judge and an alternativ... |
she also introduced 24 Private Member's Bills on issues including paid maternity leave, the Republic, genetic privacy, stem cells, captioning and same sex marriage. Stott Despoja regularly attends the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. On 22 October 2006, after undergoing emergency surgery for an ectopic pregnancy, she... | hands of her partner or someone she knows every week. This violence is preventable, and that we need to "create a new normal". Honours and accolades In 1999, she was appointed a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Despoja was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in June 2011 for her "ser... |
any nation or as official ethics guidelines by any association. In fact, the Code's reference to Hippocratic duty to the individual patient and the need to provide information was not initially favored by the American Medical Association. Katz observes that the Western world initially dismissed the Nuremberg Code as a ... | known as the Nuremberg trials. In the trial of USA v Brandt, which became known as the "Doctors' Trial", German physicians responsible for conducting unethical medical procedures on humans during the war were tried. They focused on physicians who conducted inhumane and unethical human experiments in concentration camps... |
k + 1. If this makes all the heaps of size zero (in misère play), the winning move is to take k objects from one of the heaps. In particular, in ideal play from a single heap of n objects, the second player can win if and only if 0 = n (mod k + 1) (in normal play), or 1 = n (mod k + 1) (in misère play). This follows fr... | 0 0 1 0012=110 You take 1 from C, and lose. Example implementation The previous strategy for a misère game can be easily implemented (for example in Python, below). import functools MISERE = 'misere' NORMAL = 'normal' def nim(heaps, game_type): """Computes next move for Nim, for both game types normal and misere. if th... |
hosted her gatherings at l'hôtel Sagonne, which was considered "the" location of the salon of Ninon de l'Enclos despite other locales in the past. During this time she was a friend of Jean Racine, the great French playwright. Later she would become a close friend with the devout Françoise d'Aubigné, better known as Mad... | de Villarceaux, by whom she had a son, also named Louis. She lived with the marquis until 1655, when she returned to Paris. When she would not return to him, the marquis fell into a fever; to console him, Ninon cut her hair and sent the shorn locks to him, starting a vogue for bobbed hair à la Ninon. This life (less ac... |
develop commercial standards for materials and products.page 133 Some of these standards were for products intended for government use, but product standards also affected private-sector consumption. Quality standards were developed for products including some types of clothing, automobile brake systems and headlamps, ... | used for measurement and characterization of systems for extreme ultraviolet lithography. The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) performs research in nanotechnology, both through internal research efforts and by running a user-accessible cleanroom nanomanufacturing facility. This "NanoFab" is equipped w... |
names, preferring a different, Russian, nickname. An exception was that Soviet airmen appreciated the MiG-29's codename "Fulcrum", as an indication of its pivotal role in Soviet air defence. Nomenclature To reduce the risk of confusion, unusual or made-up names were allocated, the idea being that the names chosen would... | (i.e., SA-N- vis-à-vis. SA-) for these systems. The names are kept the same as a convenience. Where there is no corresponding system, a new name is devised. Soviet nicknames The Soviet Union did not always assign official "popular names" to its aircraft, but unofficial nicknames were common as in any air force. General... |
SS-4 "Sandal" (R-12) SS-5 "Skean" (R-14) SS-6 "Sapwood" (R-7) SS-7 "Saddler" (R-16) SS-8 "Sasin" (R-9/R-9A) SS-9 "Scarp" (R-36) SS-10 "Scrag" (GR-1) SS-11 "Sego" (UR-100) SS-12 "Scaleboard" (9M76) SS-13 "Savage" (RT-2) SS-14 "Scapegoat" and "Scamp" (RT-15) SS-15 "Scrooge" (RT-20) SS-16 "Sinner" (15Zh42) SS-17 "Spanker"... | (RT-15) SS-15 "Scrooge" (RT-20) SS-16 "Sinner" (15Zh42) SS-17 "Spanker" (MR-UR-100) SS-18 "Satan" (R-36M) SS-19 "Stiletto" (UR-100N) SS-20 "Saber" (RT-21M/15Zh45) SS-21 "Scarab" (9M79) SS-22 "Scaleboard" (9M76) SS-23 "Spider" (9M714) SS-24 "Scalpel" (RT-23) SS-25 "Sickle" (RT-2PM) SS-26 "Stone" SS-27 "Sickle-B" (RT-2UT... |
(Bisnovat R-40) AA-7 "Apex" (Vympel R-23) AA-8 "Aphid" (Molniya R-60) AA-9 "Amos" (Vympel R-33) AA-10 "Alamo" (Vympel R-27) AA-11 "Archer" (Vympel R-73) AA-12 "Adder" (Vympel R-77) AA-X-13 "Axehead" (Vympel R-37) - none - Novator | R-40) AA-7 "Apex" (Vympel R-23) AA-8 "Aphid" (Molniya R-60) AA-9 "Amos" (Vympel R-33) AA-10 "Alamo" (Vympel R-27) AA-11 "Archer" (Vympel R-73) AA-12 "Adder" |
(Kh-22 Burya) AS-5 "Kelt" (Kh-11/KSR-2) AS-6 "Kingfish" (Kh-26/KSR-5) AS-7 "Kerry" (Kh-66, Kh-23 Grom) AT-6 AS-8 (9M114V Shturm-V) AS-9 "Kyle" (Kh-28) AS-10 "Karen" (Kh-25) AS-11 "Kilter" (Kh-58 Izdeliye D-7) AS-12 "Kegler" (Kh-25MP, Kh-27PS) AS-13 "Kingbolt" (Kh-59 Ovod) AS-14 "Kedge" (Kh-29) AS-15 "Kent" (Kh-55/Kh-65... | Yen) AS-3 "Kangaroo" (Kh-20) AS-4 "Kitchen" (Kh-22 Burya) AS-5 "Kelt" (Kh-11/KSR-2) AS-6 "Kingfish" (Kh-26/KSR-5) AS-7 "Kerry" (Kh-66, Kh-23 Grom) AT-6 AS-8 (9M114V Shturm-V) AS-9 "Kyle" (Kh-28) AS-10 "Karen" (Kh-25) AS-11 "Kilter" (Kh-58 Izdeliye D-7) AS-12 "Kegler" (Kh-25MP, Kh-27PS) AS-13 "Kingbolt" (Kh-59 Ovod) AS-... |
Metis-M) АТ-14 Spriggan (9M133 Kornet) АТ-15 Springer (9M123 Khrizantema) AT-16 Scallion (9A1472? Vikhr / Vikhr-M?) Hermes (missile) air-launched: anti-tank option. See also NATO reporting name List of anti-tank guided missiles External links Antitank weapons at armscontrol.ru. Designations of Soviet and | Kobra) AT-9 Spiral-2 (9M120 Ataka) AT-10 Stabber (9M117 Bastion) AT-11 Sniper (9M119 Svir" / "Refleks) AT-12 Swinger (9M118 Sheksna) AT-13 Saxhorn-2 (9M131 Metis-M) АТ-14 Spriggan (9M133 Kornet) АТ-15 Springer (9M123 Khrizantema) AT-16 Scallion (9A1472? Vikhr / Vikhr-M?) Hermes (missile) air-launched: anti-tank option.... |
(9K333 Verba "Willow") U.S. DoD designations for SA-N series naval surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations. Note that these are not standard NATO names, NATO uses the regular SA series for naval SAMS also, however the US DoD refers to them by these names: SA-N-1 Goa (4К90 Volna) [SA-3] SA-N-2 Guideline (М-2 V... | SA-27 Gollum "Buk missile system" (Buk-M3) SA-X-28 "S-350E Vityaz 50R6" SA-29 VERBA 9M336 "9K333 Verba" (9K333 Verba "Willow") U.S. DoD designations for SA-N series naval surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations. Note that these are not standard NATO names, NATO uses the regular SA series for naval SAMS also, ... |
names for bombers, with Soviet Union and Chinese designations. Bombers had names starting with the letter "B"; | Union and Chinese designations. Bombers had names starting with the letter "B"; single-syllable words denoted propeller driven aircraft (piston |
"NATO designations" and similar names, Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and two non-NATO countries, Australia and New Zealand. See | the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and two non-NATO countries, Australia and New Zealand. See also NATO reporting name Notes fighters NATO reporting names for |
NATO reporting name helicopters | Helicopters, NATO/ASCC names: |
designations: See also NATO reporting name transport | transport aircraft and their Soviet, Russian and Chinese designations: See |
"Midas" Ilyushin Il-78 "Midget" Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI "Mink" Yakovlev UT-2 "Mist" Tsybin Ts-25 "Mitten" Yakovlev Yak-130 "Mole" Beriev Be-8 "Mongol" Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 two-seat trainer version "Moose" Yakovlev Yak-11 "Mop" PBY Catalina "Moss" Tupolev Tu-126 "Mote" Beriev MBR-2 "Moujik" Sukhoi Su-7U "Mug" Beri... | Il-80 "May" Ilyushin Il-38 "Maya" Aero L-29 "Mermaid" Beriev Be-40 "Midas" Ilyushin Il-78 "Midget" Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI "Mink" Yakovlev UT-2 "Mist" Tsybin Ts-25 "Mitten" Yakovlev Yak-130 "Mole" Beriev Be-8 "Mongol" Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 two-seat trainer version "Moose" Yakovlev Yak-11 "Mop" PBY Catalina "Moss" ... |
"Akula-II" "Severodvinsk" (Project 885 - (Ясень) Class) Ballistic missile submarines Ballistic Missile Submarines - Diesel/Electric Propelled (Podvodnaya Lodka Raketnaya Ballisticheskaya - PLRB) "Zulu V" (Project AV-611) 5 boats "Golf I" (Project 629) 22 boats "Golf II" (Project 629A) 14 boats (refitted from Project 62... | 677, Lada) Hunter/Killer Submarines - Nuclear Propelled (Podvodnaya Lodka Atomnaya - PLA) "November" (Project 627 - Kit (Кит) Class) "Echo I" (Project 659T) (refitted from Project 659 boats) "Victor" "Victor-I" (Project 671 - Yorsh (Ёрш) Class) "Victor-II" (Project 671RT - Syomga (Сёмга) Class) "Victor-III" (Project 67... |
take it for granted that Ulla's thirty commandments included the original seven, an additional thirty laws are also possible from the reading. Two different lists of the 30 laws exist. Both lists include an additional twenty-three mitzvot which are subdivisions or extensions of the seven laws. One from the 16th-century... | apply to all of humanity. After the Flood, God sealed a covenant with Noah with the following admonitions as written in Genesis 9:4-6: Flesh of a living animal: "However, flesh with its life-blood [in it], you shall not eat." (9:4) Murder and courts: "Furthermore, I will demand your blood, for [the taking of] your live... |
while in others like Germany (and experimentally in France) there are naturist sunbathing areas in public parks (e.g., in Munich and Berlin). Beaches in some holiday destinations, such as Crete, are also clothing optional, except some central urban beaches. There are two centrally located clothes-optional beaches in Ba... | David Thoreau both wrote of nudity within the natural environment. Health Naturist activities can have positive psychological benefits including greater life satisfaction, more positive body image, and higher self-esteem. Social nudity leads to acceptance in spite of differences in age, body shape, fitness, and health.... |
Baltics was €8.2 billion and in Russia €4.5 billion. During the period 2013-2017 exposure to the Russian market was reduced by 63%. In 2016, Luminor was formed by a merger of Nordea's and DNB's operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania creating the third largest Baltic regional bank with assets of €15 billion and a m... | of around 300 banks including some of the oldest banks in the Nordic region. This includes Wermlandsbanken of Sweden (founded 1832), Christiania Kreditkasse of Norway (founded 1848) and Union Bank of Finland (UBF) of Finland (founded 1862). Between 1997 and 2001, the Finnish, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian banks of Mer... |
relation is Normal subgroups are important because they (and only they) can be used to construct quotient groups of the given group. Furthermore, the normal subgroups of are precisely the kernels of group homomorphisms with domain which means that they can be used to internally classify those homomorphisms. Évariste Ga... | is, if is a surjective group homomorphism and is normal in then the image is normal in Normality is preserved by taking inverse images; that is, if is a group homomorphism and is normal in then the inverse image is normal in Normality is preserved on taking direct products; that is, if and then Every subgroup of index ... |
A mythical figure in Mandaean religion, Abathur Muzania is similar to Rashnu. He has the same position in the world of the dead and he holds a set of scales. Muzania means scales (mizan) in Aramaic. According to recent research, it is hypothesized that Munkar and Nakir were derived from astrological figures that origin... | Muhammad is their prophet and that their religion is Islam. If the deceased answers correctly, the time spent awaiting the resurrection is pleasant and may enter heaven. Those who do not answer as described above are chastised until the day of judgment. There is belief that the fire of hell can already be seen in Barza... |
formula, as it contains coconut fatty acids and naphthenic acid, but it can be condensed into two structures. X-104 soap has a melting point that varies from 110 to 120 degrees Celsius, melting into a gel substance. The melting point of napalm tends to decompose it, evolving toxic smoke with a bittersweet odor, charact... | all processes, drying over a forced draft of ~325 FPM is used. Drying trays by convection tends to take from 24 hours to more than 48 hours for the soap to have a satisfactory thickening. At very high temperatures sintering the material early on, turning the powder into a crystalline sand-like material and oxidizing it... |
request, Pope Innocent III dedicated the Baltic countries to the Virgin Mary to popularize recruitment to his army and the name "Mary's Land" has survived up to modern times. This is noticeable in one of the names given to Livonia at the time, Terra Mariana (Land of Mary). In 1206, the crusaders subdued the Livonian st... | by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and to a lesser extent also against Orthodox Christian Slavs (East Slavs). The most notable campaigns were the Livonian and Prussian crusades. ... |
accelerated. Both neoteny and progenesis result in paedomorphism or paedomorphosis, a type of heterochrony. It is the retention in adults of traits previously seen only in the young. Such retention is important in evolutionary biology, domestication and evolutionary developmental biology. Some authors define paedomorph... | behavioral characteristics. Behavior is linked to genetics which therefore means that when a behavioral trait is selected for, a physical trait may also be selected for due to mechanisms like linkage disequilibrium. Often, juvenile behaviors are selected for in order to more easily domesticate a species; aggressiveness... |
map, and fares on these two networks are priced as TfL services, the same as London Underground, rather than National Rail services. The National Rail service status web page by TfL also doesn't list these 2 systems as well. London Overground also owns some infrastructure in its own right, following the reopening of th... | a concession awarded by Transport for London. They are part of National Rail as train operating companies, where tickets can be used in the same way as other operators, and shown in the National Rail timetable. However, under Transport for London (TfL), they are considered as separate networks. They are listed separate... |
fast-spinning star. Studies of pulsars and some computer simulations (Choptuik, 1997) have been performed. Mathematician Demetrios Christodoulou, a winner of the Shaw Prize, has shown that contrary to what had been expected, singularities which are not hidden in a black hole also occur. However, he then showed that suc... | computer simulations (Choptuik, 1997) have been performed. Mathematician Demetrios Christodoulou, a winner of the Shaw Prize, has shown that contrary to what had been expected, singularities which are not hidden in a black hole also occur. However, he then showed that such "naked singularities" are unstable. Metrics Di... |
the election of Arthur Fadden as leader after the 1940 election. Fadden was well regarded within conservative circles and proved to be a loyal deputy to Menzies in the difficult circumstances of 1941. When Menzies was forced to resign as Prime Minister, the UAP was so bereft of leadership that Fadden briefly succeeded ... | state-based Country Parties won federal seats in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. They also began to win seats in state parliaments. In 1920 the Country Party was established as a national party led by William McWilliams from Tasmania. In his first speech as leader, McWilliams laid out the principles of... |
novel finding. The expression patterns obtained under given conditions can provide insight into the function of that gene. Since the RNA is first separated by size, if only one probe type is used variance in the level of each band on the membrane can provide insight into the size of the product, suggesting alternative ... | vitro are able to withstand more rigorous washing steps preventing some of the background noise. Commonly cDNA is created with labelled primers for the RNA sequence of interest to act as the probe in the northern blot. The probes must be labelled either with radioactive isotopes (32P) or with chemiluminescence in which... |
in World War I. They were a short-lived military application, and after the war the surplus equipment created a small boom in European narrow-gauge railway building. Improvements Heavy-duty tracks The heavy-duty narrow-gauge railways in Queensland, South Africa, Japan, and New Zealand demonstrate that if track is built... | Introduction of internal combustion In 1897, a manganese mine in the Lahn valley in Germany was using two benzine-fueled locomotives with single cylinder internal combustion engines on the 500mm gauge tracks of their mine railway; these locomotives were made by the Deutz Gas Engine Company (Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz), now... |
dependent upon the particular radioactive species and can range from fractions of a second to several years. Once irradiated, the sample is left for a specific decay period, then placed into a detector, which will measure the nuclear decay according to either the emitted particles, or more commonly, the emitted gamma r... | within the compound nucleus is formed from the binding energy of the thermal neutron with the target nucleus. This excited state is unfavourable and the compound nucleus will almost instantaneously de-excite (transmutate) into a more stable configuration through the emission of a prompt particle and one or more charact... |
specifies three things: the symbol to be written to the tape (it may be the same as the symbol currently in that position, or not even write at all, resulting in no practical change), the direction (left, right or neither) in which the head should move, and the subsequent state of the finite control. For example, an X ... | of which follows one of the possible transitions. Whereas a DTM has a single "computation path" that it follows, an NTM has a "computation tree". If at least one branch of the tree halts with an "accept" condition, the NTM accepts the input. Definition A nondeterministic Turing machine can be formally defined as a six-... |
ethylene. However, their reproduction by the very chemically inactive gas argon makes them unlikely to be a strictly chemical bonding to receptors in the usual sense of a chemical bond. An indirect physical effect – such as a change in membrane volume – would therefore be needed to affect the ligand-gated ion channels ... | a minute or two, which results in a delayed narcotic effect after descending to a new depth. Rapid compression potentiates narcosis owing to carbon dioxide retention. A divers' cognition may be affected on dives as shallow as , but the changes are not usually noticeable. There is no reliable method to predict the depth... |
appearance of hard-shelled arthropods called trilobites and archeocyathid sponges at the beginning of the Cambrian Period. In the early 20th century, paleontologists started finding fossils of multicellular animals that predated the Cambrian. A complex fauna was found in South West Africa in the 1920s but was inaccurat... | others were revealed to be members of rather complex biotas that remain poorly understood. At least 25 regions worldwide have yielded metazoan fossils older than the classical Precambrian–Cambrian boundary (which is currently dated at ). A few of the early animals appear possibly to be ancestors of modern animals. Most... |
the German foreign intelligence service, was confirmed by BND president Gerhard Schindler. Thailand Thailand is a "3rd party partner" of the NSA along with nine other nations. These are non-English-speaking countries that have made security agreements for the exchange of SIGINT raw material and end product reports. Tha... | the Defense Security Service. Jeff Stein of The Washington Post said that the video portrays "various applicants, or actors playing them—it's not clear—describing everything bad they had heard about the test, the implication being that none of it is true." AntiPolygraph.org argues that the NSA-produced video omits some... |
of how basic neuronal networks code stimuli and thus basic concepts are possible (David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel). The molecular revolution swept across US universities in the 1980s. It was in the 1990s that molecular mechanisms of behavioral phenomena became widely known (Eric Richard Kandel)." A microscopic examin... | which can be due to different causes including diabetic neuropathy and demyelinating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neuroscience is the field of science that focuses on the study of the nervous system. Structure The nervous system derives its name from nerves, which are cylindri... |
figurative and decorative designs, particularly from the Alps where they were sold as souvenirs, and a switch to industrial manufacture, including availability in mail-order catalogues, rather than artisan production. After the 1960s, the availability of pre-shelled nuts led to a decline in ownership of nutcrackers and... | one time, nutcrackers were actually made of metals such as brass, and it was not until the 1800s in Germany that the popularity of wooden ones began to spread. The late 19th century saw two shifts in nutcracker production: the rise in figurative and decorative designs, particularly from the Alps where they were sold as... |
Academy, he was appointed to a professorship. He taught mythology and anatomy in addition to painting of the neoclassical style. Beyond his position at the Academy, he was very productive as an artist from 1777 to 1794. He produced not only monumental works, but also smaller pieces such as vignettes and illustrations. ... | Johan Edvard Mandelberg and Johannes Wiedewelt. He won a series of medallions at the Academy for his brilliance from 1764 to 1767. The Large Gold Medallion from the Academy won in 1767 included a travel stipend, which he waited five years to receive. He assisted Professor Johan Mandelberg of the Academy as an apprentic... |
of its cores over the modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Vedic texts refer to the area as the province of Pushkalavati. The area was once known to be a great center of learning. Persian and Greek Invasions At around 516 BCE., Darius Hystaspes sent Scylax, a Greek seaman from Karyanda, to explore the course of the Indu... | undermined and power seized by Yar Muhammad Khan. In 1823, Ranjit Singh returned to capture Peshawar, and was met by the armies of Azim Khan at Nowshera. Following the Sikh victory at the Battle of Nowshera, Ranjit Singh re-captured Peshawar. Rather than re-appointing Jehandad Khan of Khattak, Ranjit Singh selected Yar... |
the planet's center. Its orbital period is less than a Neptunian day, resulting in tidal dissipation that will cause its orbit to decay. Eventually it will either crash into Neptune's atmosphere or break up to become a new ring. History Naiad was discovered sometime before mid-September 1989 from the images taken by th... | Voyager 2 probe. The last moon to be discovered during the flyby, it was designated S/1989 N 6. The discovery was announced on 29 September 1989, in the IAU Circular No. 4867, and mentions "25 frames taken over 11 days", implying a discovery date of sometime before September 18. The name was given on 16 September 1991.... |
and Chad into Libya. Most Tubu speakers live in Northern Chad close to the Tibesti Mountains. Tubu has two main varieties: the Daza language and the Teda language. The total for all speakers of Nilo-Saharan languages according to Ethnologue 16 is 38–39 million people. However, the data spans a range from ca. 1980 to 20... | African interior, including the greater Nile Basin and the Central Sahara Desert. Eight of its proposed constituent divisions (excluding Kunama, Kuliak, and Songhay) are found in the modern countries of Sudan and South Sudan, through which the Nile River flows. In his book The Languages of Africa (1963), Joseph Greenbe... |
pore complex Small particles (up to 30–60 kDa) are able to pass through the nuclear pore complex by passive diffusion. Larger particles are also able to diffuse passively through the large diameter of the pore, at rates that decrease gradually with molecular weight. Efficient passage through the complex requires severa... | contains many phenylalanine—glycine repeats. Nuclear pore complexes allow the transport of molecules across the nuclear envelope. This transport includes RNA and ribosomal proteins moving from nucleus to the cytoplasm and proteins (such as DNA polymerase and lamins), carbohydrates, signaling molecules and lipids moving... |
an electron microscope, while the organization and dynamics can be studied through fluorescent protein tagging and fluorescent recovery after photobleaching (FRAP). Antibodies against the PAF49 protein can also be used as a marker for the nucleolus in immunofluorescence experiments. Although usually only one or two nuc... | RNA. Structure Three major components of the nucleolus are recognized: the fibrillar center (FC), the dense fibrillar component (DFC), and the granular component (GC). Transcription of the rDNA occurs in the FC. The DFC contains the protein fibrillarin, which is important in rRNA processing. The GC contains the protein... |
2 antiparticles. Each resonance exists in a form with a positive electric charge (), with a quark composition of like the proton, and a neutral form, with a quark composition of like the neutron, as well as the corresponding antiparticles with antiquark compositions of and respectively. Since they contain no strange, c... | about 0.13% less than the neutron's. Thus, they can be viewed as two states of the same nucleon, and together form an isospin doublet (). In isospin space, neutrons can be transformed into protons and conversely by SU(2) symmetries. These nucleons are acted upon equally by the strong interaction, which is invariant und... |
a legend, which crystallized under the Restoration and July Monarchy, from the pen of songwriters, vaudeville and historians. He argues that the figure of Chauvin continues the long tradition of the mythological farmer-soldier or miles gloriosus ("boastful soldier") from ancient Roman theater, or the alazon of ancient ... | Armée of Napoleon. His name is the eponym of chauvinism, originally a term for excessive nationalistic fervor, but later used to refer to any form of bigotry or bias (e.g., male chauvinism). According to the stories that developed about him, Chauvin was born in Rochefort around 1780. He enlisted at age 18, and he serve... |
notably glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport chain. If humans ingest nicotinamide, it will likely undergo a series of reactions that transform it into NAD, which can then undergo a transformation to form NADP+. This method of creation of NAD+ is called a salvage pathway. However, the human body... | niacinamide include yeast, meat, milk, and green vegetables. Niacinamide was discovered between 1935 and 1937. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. Niacinamide is available as a generic medication and over the counter. Commercially, niacinamide is made from either nicotinic acid (niacin... |
Z-axis. Its controller is an attempt to implement dual digital D-pads to control elements in the 3D environment. The controller is shaped like an "M", like a Nintendo 64 controller. The player holds onto either side of the controller which has a unique extendable power supply that slides onto the back, housing the syst... | on at Nintendo as late as the third quarter of 1996. The system's EXT (extension) port, located on the underside of the system below the controller port, was never officially supported because no "official" multiplayer games were ever published. Two games were intended to use the EXT port for multiplayer play, but the ... |
nucleus of the atom: Nuclear engineering Nuclear physics Nuclear power Nuclear reactor Nuclear weapon Nuclear medicine Radiation therapy Nuclear warfare Mathematics Nuclear space Nuclear operator Nuclear congruence Nuclear C*-algebra Biology Relating to the | Nuclear C*-algebra Biology Relating to the nucleus of the cell: Nuclear DNA Society Nuclear family, a family consisting of a pair of adults and their children Music "Nuclear" |
following OSI-based network technologies: ATM switched virtual circuit networks X.25 (see ITU-T X.121 for addressing in public data networks) Frame relay IS-IS SDH & SONET networks. NSAP-style addresses are used in the IS-IS routing protocol. NSEL The NSEL (Network-Selector) is a field in the NSAP address that identifi... | socket, is specified by using a Transport Service Access Point (TSAP). ATM can also use a Presentation (PSAP) and Session (SSAP) Access Point, but these may also be unspecified; this is up to the application. Allocation and scope NSAP addresses are allocated by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ... |
hole. In 1995, Robert Ballard used the NR-1 and its support ship to explore the wreck of , the sister ship of , which sank off the coast of Greece while serving as a hospital ship during World War I. On 25 February 2007, NR-1 arrived in Galveston, Texas, towed by Carolyn Chouest, in preparation for an expedition to sur... | base at Groton, Connecticut, defuelled at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, then sent to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to be scrapped. On 13 November 2013, the U.S. Navy announced that salvaged pieces of the sub would be put on display at the Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton. Capabilities NR-1 perfo... |
Cherry Master (no EU release) Neo Geo Cup 98 (no EU release) Neo Geo Cup 98 Plus (no JPN release) Pocket Tennis Puzzle Link (no EU release) Samurai Shodown Syougi no Tatsujin - Master of Syougi (no EU release) After the release of the Neo Geo Pocket Color, several of these titles began receiving re-releases, updated to... | for the color system will play in monochrome on a Neo Geo Pocket. Likewise, the Neo Geo Pocket Color is backward compatible and the entire Neo Geo Pocket library can be played on the color system. Only ten monochrome games were released for the Neo Geo Pocket before it was discontinued: Baseball Stars King of Fighters ... |
Exchequer, John Major. Kinnock greeted Thatcher's resignation by describing it as "very good news" and demanded an immediate general election. Public reaction to Major's elevation was highly positive. A new Prime Minister and the fact that Kinnock was now the longest-serving current leader of a major party reduced the ... | closely modelled on Anthony Crosland's social-democratic thinking—emphasising equality rather than public ownership. At the same time, the Labour Party's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament was dropped, and reforms of Party Conference and the National Executive meant that local parties lost much of their abili... |
Acquisition by America Online On November 24, 1998, America Online (AOL) announced it would acquire Netscape Communications in a tax-free stock-swap valued at US$4.2 billion. By the time the deal closed on March 17, 1999, it was valued at US$10 billion. This merger was ridiculed by many who believed that the two corpor... | campus in June 1995 to propose dividing the market (an allegation denied by Microsoft and, if true, would have breached antitrust laws), which would have allowed Microsoft to produce web browser software for Windows while leaving all other operating systems to Netscape. Netscape refused the proposition. Microsoft relea... |
an echo of an earlier Irish conspiracy during the French occupation of St. John's in 1762, in April 1800 the authorities had reports that upwards of 400 men had taken an oath as United Irishmen, and that eighty soldiers were committed to killing their officers and seizing their Anglican governors at Sunday service. The... | of rebellion in Ireland, in June 1798 Governor Vice-Admiral Waldegrave cautioned London that the English constituted but a "small proportion" of the locally raised Regiment of Foot. In an echo of an earlier Irish conspiracy during the French occupation of St. John's in 1762, in April 1800 the authorities had reports th... |
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