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series, a sequence of novels by Lin Carter Callisto, a novel by Torsten Krol Callisto (comics), a fictional mutant in X-Men Callisto (Xena), a character on Xena: Warrior Princess "Callisto" (Xena: Warrior Princess episode) Callisto family, a fictional family in the Miles from Tomorrowland TV series Callisto, a toy in t... | (moon), a moon of Jupiter Callisto may also refer to: Art and entertainment Callisto series, a sequence of novels by Lin Carter Callisto, a novel by Torsten Krol Callisto (comics), a fictional mutant in X-Men Callisto (Xena), a character on Xena: Warrior Princess "Callisto" (Xena: Warrior Princess episode) Callisto fam... |
a time for us to reflect on our tradition and scripture, and together say how we can offer a response that is about it being inclusive love." Same-sex unions and LGBT clergy The Church of England has been discussing same-sex marriages and LGBT clergy. The church plans to discuss the issue and decide on whether to perfo... | allowing the consecration of women as bishops. In February 2006, the synod voted overwhelmingly for the "further exploration" of possible arrangements for parishes that did not want to be directly under the authority of a bishop who is a woman. On 7 July 2008, the synod voted to approve the ordination of women as bisho... |
But one above the rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late, hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall, / That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall. Two other Italians wrote rather different works that centre on the animal within the human. One was Niccolò Machiavelli in his unfinished... | a magic wand or staff, she would transform her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals. The best known of her legends is told in Homer's Odyssey when Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan War and she changes most of his crew into swine. He manages to persuade her to return them to... |
Cursor Position Report, an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence Candidate phyla radiation, bacteria precursors. Competent Persons Report, in Oil and Gas; see Lancaster oilfield Organizations American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility Center for Performance Research Centre for Policy Research, a think tank... | Réunion Communist Party of Russia (disambiguation), various meanings Congress for the Republic, a Tunisian political party Conservatives for Patients' Rights, a pressure group founded and funded by Rick Scott that argues for private insurance methods to pay for healthcare Det Centrale Personregister (Civil Registration... |
valuable, so the silk trains died out. Funeral trains Funeral trains would carry the remains of important people, such as prime ministers. As the train would pass, mourners would be at certain spots to show respect. Two of the CPR's funeral trains are particularly well-known. On 10 June 1891, the funeral train of Prime... | 7 November 1885, the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, making good on the original promise. Four days earlier, the last spike of the Lake Superior section was driven in just west of Jackfish, Ontario. While the railway was completed four years after the original 1881 deadline, it was completed m... |
the improvement of students' ability to set goals and self-regulate effectively to meet those goals. As a part of this process, it is also important to ensure that students are realistically evaluating their personal degree of knowledge and setting realistic goals (another metacognitive task). Common phenomena related ... | in 2011. Kahneman differentiated the two styles of processing more, calling them intuition and reasoning. Intuition (or system 1), similar to associative reasoning, was determined to be fast and automatic, usually with strong emotional bonds included in the reasoning process. Kahneman said that this kind of reasoning w... |
severed while the comet passed through a coronal mass ejection. This event was observed by the STEREO space probe. In 2013, ESA scientists reported that the ionosphere of the planet Venus streams outwards in a manner similar to the ion tail seen streaming from a comet under similar conditions." Jets Uneven heating can ... | with a reasonable observation arc. Comets not expected to return to the inner Solar System include C/1980 E1, C/2000 U5, C/2001 Q4 (NEAT), C/2009 R1, C/1956 R1, and C/2007 F1 (LONEOS). Some authorities use the term "periodic comet" to refer to any comet with a periodic orbit (that is, all short-period comets plus all l... |
as it decomposes, able to capture water and store it for later use by crops planted on top of the hügelkultur bed. Composting toilets Related technologies Vermicompost (also called worm castings, worm humus, worm manure, or worm faeces) is the end-product of the breakdown of organic matter by earthworms. These castings... | like a sponge as it decomposes, able to capture water and store it for later use by crops planted on top of the hügelkultur bed. Composting toilets Related technologies Vermicompost (also called worm castings, worm humus, worm manure, or worm faeces) is the end-product of the breakdown of organic matter by earthworms. ... |
territorial unit United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Numerous U.S. state and territorial capitols Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia Capitolio Federal in Caracas, Venezuela El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba Capitol of Palau in Ngerulmud, Palau Other uses Capitol, capitols, or The Capitol may also refer to: Enterta... | Capitol (TV series), a U.S. soap opera Capitol (collection), a book by Orson Scott Card The Capitols, a Detroit, Michigan-based soul trio Business Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a predecessor organization to World Wrestling Entertainment Capitol Records, a U.S. record label Capitol Air, originally known as Capitol Inte... |
Cinema (Elaine Paige album), released 1984 Cinema (Karsh Kale album), released 2010 Cinema (Nazareth album), or the title song, released 1986 Cinema, a 2009 album by Brazilian band Cachorro Grande Cinema, a 1990 album by English musician Ice MC (Ian Campbell), or the title song Cinema, a 2004 album by Portuguese musici... | White and Chris Squire The Cinema, an American indie pop band Albums Cinema (Andrea Bocelli album), released 2015 Cinema (The Cat Empire album), released 2010 Cinema (Elaine Paige album), released 1984 Cinema (Karsh Kale album), released 2010 Cinema (Nazareth album), or the title song, released 1986 Cinema, a 2009 albu... |
record has since been surpassed by certain synthetic boules. Corundum for abrasives is mined in Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, and India. Historically it was mined from deposits associated with dunites in North Carolina, US, and from a nepheline syenite in Craigmont, Ontario. Emery-grade corundum i... | are red due to the presence of chromium, and sapphires exhibit a range of colors depending on what transition metal is present. A rare type of sapphire, padparadscha sapphire, is pink-orange. The name "corundum" is derived from the Tamil-Dravidian word kurundam (ruby-sapphire) (appearing in Sanskrit as kuruvinda). Beca... |
biggest quilombo, the Quilombo dos Palmares, consisted of many villages which lasted more than a century, resisting at least 24 small attacks and 18 colonial invasions. Portuguese soldiers sometimes said that it took more than one dragoon to capture a quilombo warrior since they would defend themselves with a strangely... | The purpose was also religious as it both provided a link to the afterlife (which was the opposite of the living world) and enabled a person to channel their ancestors into their dance. For example, during the dance, a person might become possessed by an ancestor who was talented at N'golo. This could be applied to a m... |
of ways. For instance, upon harvesting, wood (as a carbon-rich material) can be immediately burned or otherwise serve as a fuel, returning its carbon to the atmosphere, or it can be incorporated into construction or a range of other durable products, thus sequestering its carbon over years or even centuries. A very car... | stored carbon in manufactured wood products along with the regrowth of the harvested forests. Additionally, the amount of carbon released from harvesting is small compared to the amount of carbon lost each year to forest fires and other natural disturbances. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that ... |
stated "I have always supposed that the great object, in every country, and especially in a new country, was to draw as [many] capitalists into it as possible." Tupper traveled to London in summer 1879 to attempt to persuade the British government (then headed by the Earl of Beaconsfield in his second term as prime min... | he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He briefly served as the Canadian prime minister, from seven days after parliament had been dissolved, until he resigned on July 8, 1896 following his party's loss in the 1896 Canadian federal election. His 69-day tenure as prime minister is the shortest in Canadian history. Tuppe... |
1987 to provide a national all-news television network. Its competitor applicant, Alberta-based Allarcom, appealed this decision to the House of Commons of Canada. It was overturned and there were questions of whether federal politicians should meddle in CRTC decisions. Because of this the network launch was delayed fr... | though these cards were either grey market or black market, according to different analyses (see below). Following unprecedented foreign led and domestic political interference with the CRTC's quasi-judicial independent regulatory process, within six months of its original decision, an abrupt CRTC "review" of its polic... |
Latin phrase pro et contra Convention (meeting) Fan convention, e.g. "Comic-Con" Convict, as in con, a person who has been convicted of a crime, or ex-con, a person who has completed their prison sentence Convicted felon, a person who has been convicted of a felony crime in a court of law Con, a musical term meaning "w... | Municipal Airport (IATA airport code CON), a public-use airport in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States Cornwall, England, Chapman code CON Arts, entertainment, and media Con (TV series), a television show about confidence trickery Con Air, a 1997 American action crime film Naruto: Clash of Ninja, or CON, a 3... |
Tyne was shipped to London for the smiths and lime-burners building Westminster Abbey. Seacoal Lane and Newcastle Lane, where coal was unloaded at wharves along the River Fleet, still exist. These easily accessible sources had largely become exhausted (or could not meet the growing demand) by the 13th century, when und... | from the geological treatise On Stones (Lap. 16) by the Greek scientist Theophrastus (c. 371–287 BC): Outcrop coal was used in Britain during the Bronze Age (3000–2000 BC), where it formed part of funeral pyres. In Roman Britain, with the exception of two modern fields, "the Romans were exploiting coals in all the majo... |
qi that is distributed in the skin, muscles, and tissues between them. The former is called yíng-qì (); its function is to complement xuè and its nature has a strong yin aspect (although qi in general is considered to be yang). The latter is called weì-qì (); its main function is defence and it has pronounced yang natu... | gives detailed prescriptions of these patterns regarding their typical symptoms, mostly including characteristic tongue and/or pulse findings. For example: "Upflaming Liver fire" (): Headache, red face, reddened eyes, dry mouth, nosebleeds, constipation, dry or hard stools, profuse menstruation, sudden tinnitus or deaf... |
but not in any particularly-oriented ways. This results in the malleability of metals. The cloud of electrons in metallic bonding causes the characteristically good electrical and thermal conductivity of metals, and also their shiny lustre that reflects most frequencies of white light. History Early speculations about ... | in the hydrogen molecular ion, H2+, was derived by the Danish physicist Øyvind Burrau. This work showed that the quantum approach to chemical bonds could be fundamentally and quantitatively correct, but the mathematical methods used could not be extended to molecules containing more than one electron. A more practical,... |
photo cell, a sensor which detects light Solar cell, a component of photovoltaic systems used to convert the energy of light into electricity Storm cell, the smallest unit of a storm-producing system Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities Cell (comics), a Marvel comic book character Cell (Dragon Ball), a cha... | to convert chemical energy to electrical energy Fuel cell. a device used to convert chemical energy from a fuel like hydrogen to electricity Galvanic cell or Voltaic cell, a particular kind of electrochemical cell Photodetector, or photo cell, a sensor which detects light Solar cell, a component of photovoltaic systems... |
overestimated in the summer and underestimated in the winter. This index can be effectively used to determine the number of herbivore and mammal species numbers within a given area. The index is also used in studies of climate change. Thermal classifications within the Thornthwaite scheme include microthermal, mesother... | years. Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation. In a broader sense, climate is the state of the components of the climate system, including the ocean, land, and ice on Earth. The climate of a location is affected by its lat... |
first site of contact and subsequent admixture between African and Asian populations (earlier than Madagascar). Comorians today still display at most 20% Austronesian admixture. From around the 15th century AD, Shirazi slave traders established trading ports and brought in slaves from the mainland. In the 16th century,... | the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence. The first president of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, did not last long before being ousted in a coup d'état by Ali Soilih, an atheis... |
Mayotte (Mahoré). The islands' distance from each other—Grande Comore is some 200 kilometers from Mayotte, forty kilometers from Mohéli, and eighty kilometers from Grande Comore—along with a lack of good harbor facilities, make transportation and communication difficult. Comoros are sunny islands. Details The islands h... | 2,361 meters, last erupted in 1977. A plateau averaging 600 to 700 meters high connects the two mountains. Because Grande Comore is geologically a relatively new island, its soil is thin and rocky and cannot hold water. As a result, water from the island's heavy rainfall must be stored in catchment tanks. There are no ... |
Europeans (mostly French) live on the islands and play an important role in the economy. Most French left after independence in 1975. Some Persian Gulf countries started buying Comorian citizenship for their stateless bidoon residents and deporting them to Comoros. 90% of the people living in the Comoros are black, and... | solely as migrant labor. The number of Comorians living abroad has been estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000; during the colonial period, most of them lived in Tanzania, Madagascar, and other parts of Southeast Africa. The number of Comorians residing in Madagascar was drastically reduced after anti-Comorian rioting... |
budget with the rest proportionately divided among the islands. The Central government was in charge of the armed forces and national policies and could be terminated through a vote of non-confidence in the Federal Assembly, whose members were elected for four years. This constitution created a Senate of equal represen... | form OUDZIMA under the leadership of first president Ahmad Abdallah while dissidents from both created UMMA under the leadership of future president Ali Soilih. Prince Said Ibrahim took power in 1970 but was democratically elected out of office in 1972 in favor of former French senator Ahmed Abdallah. President Abdalla... |
projects In October 2011 the State of Qatar launched a special program for the construction of a wireless network to interconnect the three islands of the archipelago, by means of low cost, repeatable technology. The project has been developed by Qatar University and Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of prof... | radio relay and HF radiotelephone communication stations domestic: HF radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay CMDA mobile network (Huri, operated by Comores Telecom) international: HF radiotelephone communications to Madagascar and Réunion Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998) Radios:... |
Comoros with France, Mauritius, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Madagascar. The national airline was Air Comores. Daily flights linked the three main islands, and air service was also available to Mahoré; each island had airstrips. In 1986 the republic received a grant from the French government's CCCE to renovate a... | by air. More than 99% of freight is transported by sea. Both Moroni on Njazidja and Mutsamudu on Nzwani have artificial harbors. There is also a harbor at Fomboni, on Mwali. Despite extensive internationally financed programs to upgrade the harbors at Moroni and Mutsamudu, by the early 1990s only Mutsamudu was operatio... |
were connected to the republic by regularly scheduled commercial flights. In November 1975, Comoros became the 143d member of the UN. In the 1990s, the republic continued to represent Mahoré in the UN. Comoros was also a member of the OAU, the EDF, the World Bank, the IMF, the IOC, and the African Development Bank. Com... | 1975, Comoros became the 143d member of the UN. In the 1990s, the republic continued to represent Mahoré in the UN. Comoros was also a member of the OAU, the EDF, the World Bank, the IMF, the IOC, and the African Development Bank. Comoros thus cultivated relations with various nations, both East and West, seeking to in... |
Comoros at government request. France maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment (DLEM) on Mayotte. Equipment inventory FN FAL Battle rifle AK-47 Assault rifle Type 81 Assault Rifle NSV HMG RPG-7 Anti-tank weapon Mitsubishi L200 pickup truck Aircraft Note: The last comprehensive aircraft inventory ... | personnel, and air surveillance. France maintains a small troop presence in the Comoros at government request. France maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment (DLEM) on Mayotte. Equipment inventory FN FAL Battle |
traditional viruses. They not only infect local computers, but also all servers and clients on the network based on the local computer. Worms can easily spread through shared folders, e-mails, malicious web pages, and servers with a large number of vulnerabilities in the network. Harm Any code designed to do more than ... | computers using these computers as hosts, and this behavior will continue. Computer worms use recursive methods to copy themselves without host programs and distribute themselves based on the law of exponential growth, thus controlling and infecting more and more computers in a short time. Worms almost always cause at ... |
by Chomsky in 1957; see Phrase structure grammar and Phrase structure rules for more natural language examples and the problems of formal grammar in that area. The hierarchy The following table summarizes each of Chomsky's four types of grammars, the class of language it generates, the type of automaton that recognizes... | role in the development of the theory of formal languages. Formal grammars A formal grammar of this type consists of a finite set of production rules (left-hand side → right-hand side), where each side consists of a finite sequence of the following symbols: a finite set of nonterminal symbols (indicating that some prod... |
Tram project, London CRT Group, transport company in Australia Chicago Rapid Transit Company, former rail company Other uses Canadian Railway Troops, WWI Charitable remainder trust Claiming Rule Teams, in motorcycle racing Columbia River Treaty, Canada-US, 1960s Connecticut Repertory Theatre, University of Connecticut ... | mathematics Medicine and biology Calreticulin, a protein Capillary refill time, for blood to refill capillaries Cardiac resynchronization therapy and CRT defibrillator (CRT-D) Catheter-related thrombosis, the development of a blood clot related to long-term use of central venous catheters Certified Respiratory Therapis... |
problems. The vacuum inside of a CRT causes atmospheric pressure to exert (in a 27-inch CRT) a pressure of in total. Rebuilding CRTs used to be rebuilt; repaired or refurbished. The rebuilding process included the dissassembly of the CRT, the disassembly and repair or replacement of the electron gun(s), the removal and... | was the first to conceive the use of a CRT as a display device. In 1908, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, fellow of the Royal Society (UK), published a letter in the scientific journal Nature, in which he described how "distant electric vision" could be achieved by using a cathode-ray tube (or "Braun" tube) as both a t... |
many other forms. The different polymorphs are usually called different phases. In addition, the same atoms may be able to form noncrystalline phases. For example, water can also form amorphous ice, while SiO2 can form both fused silica (an amorphous glass) and quartz (a crystal). Likewise, if a substance can form crys... | than others (lower surface energy). As a crystal grows, new atoms attach easily to the rougher and less stable parts of the surface, but less easily to the flat, stable surfaces. Therefore, the flat surfaces tend to grow larger and smoother, until the whole crystal surface consists of these plane surfaces. (See diagram... |
on a two qubit nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computer (NMRQC). In March 2015, NASA scientists reported the formation of cytosine, along with uracil and thymine, from pyrimidine under the space-like laboratory conditions, which is of interest because pyrimidine has been found in meteorites although its origin is un... | (and thus confirmed) in the laboratory in the same year. In 1998, cytosine was used in an early demonstration of quantum information processing when Oxford University researchers implemented the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on a two qubit nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computer (NMRQC). In March 2015, NASA scientists re... |
This is a set of functions, usually centered on the different atoms in the molecule, which are used to expand the molecular orbitals with the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) molecular orbital method ansatz. Ab initio methods need to define a level of theory (the method) and a basis set. The Hartree–Fock wa... | energy as a sum of the electronic energy at fixed nuclei positions and the repulsion energy of the nuclei. A notable exception are certain approaches called direct quantum chemistry, which treat electrons and nuclei on a common footing. Density functional methods and semi-empirical methods are variants on the major the... |
but it centers on the sinister figure of Dr. Robert Vaughan, a "former TV-scientist, turned nightmare angel of the expressways". James meets Vaughan after being involved in a car accident himself near London Airport. Gathering around Vaughan is a group of alienated people, all of them former crash victims, who follow h... | collision with movie star Elizabeth Taylor. Critical reception The novel received divided reviews when originally published. One publisher's reader returned the verdict "This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do Not Publish!" A 1973 review in The New York Times was equally horrified: "Crash is, hands-down, the most re... |
version was: main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } A standard-conforming "hello, world" program is: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("hello, world\n"); } The first line of the program contains a preprocessing directive, indicated by #include. This causes the compiler to replace that line with the entire text o... | general-purpose, procedural computer programming language supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope, and recursion, with a static type system. By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions. It has found lasting use in applications previously coded in assembly lang... |
player then returns to the hamlet to find it pillaged, and decides to travel to Bjarnarhaven. Once in Bjarnarhaven, the player explores the levels beneath a nearby fortress, eventually facing Hrungnir, the Hill Giant Lord, responsible for ordering the player's godparents' death. Hrungnir carries the Enchanted Amulet of... | dungeon, there is always a town which offers the basic services of a temple for healing and curing curses, a junk store where anything can be sold for a few copper coins, a sage who can identify items and (from the second town onwards) a bank for storing the total capacity of coins to lighten the player's load. Other s... |
but differences emerge among them over the meaning and extent of its truthfulness. Conservative followers of the Princeton theologians take the view that the Bible is true and inerrant, or incapable of error or falsehood, in every place. This view is very similar to that of Catholic orthodoxy as well as modern Evangeli... | to have been made immediately following Adam and Eve's sin. In it, God graciously offers salvation from death on condition of faith in God. This covenant is administered in different ways throughout the Old and New Testaments, but retains the substance of being free of a requirement of perfect obedience. Through the in... |
{a, b, c} is paired with precisely one element of {1, 2, 3}, and vice versa, this defines a bijection. We now generalize this situation; we define that two sets are of the same size, if and only if there is a bijection between them. For all finite sets, this gives us the usual definition of "the same size". As for the ... | countably infinite. Similarly, the following propositions are equivalent: is countably infinite. There is an injective and surjective (and therefore bijective) mapping between and N. has a one-to-one correspondence with N. The elements of can be arranged in an infinite sequence , where is distinct from for and every el... |
the fingers in the direction . If the thumb points in the direction of the fourth substituent, the enantiomer is R; otherwise, it is S. It is possible in rare cases that two substituents on an atom differ only in their absolute configuration (R or S). If the relative priorities of these substituents need to be establis... | However, a different problem remains: in rare cases, two different stereoisomers of the same molecule can have the same CIP descriptors, so the CIP system may not be able to unambiguously name a stereoisomer, and other systems may be preferable. Steps for naming The steps for naming molecules using the CIP system are o... |
reasons. It is often in association with the role of a religious official or devotee. In its narrow sense, the term celibacy is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction. In a wider sense, it is commonly understood to only mean abstine... | Satan had not sown into their senses "the root of evil" (radix mali). Their nature was wounded by concupiscence or libido, which affected human intelligence and will, as well as affections and desires, including sexual desire. The sin of Adam is inherited by all human beings. Already in his pre-Pelagian writings, Augus... |
Roy Romanow formed a formal coalition with the Saskatchewan Liberals in 1999 after being reduced to a minority. After two years, the newly elected Liberal leader David Karwacki ordered the coalition be disbanded, the Liberal caucus disagreed with him and left the Liberals to run as New Democrats in the upcoming electio... | diffusion of power within a party tends to also lead to a diffusion of power in the parliament in which that party operates, thereby making coalitions more likely. During the 2008–09 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coa... |
design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw material into useful products. Chemical engineering uses principles of chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology, and economics to efficiently use, produce, design, transport an... | control system and process design. Developments in chemical engineering before and after World War II were mainly incited by the petrochemical industry; however, advances in other fields were made as well. Advancements in biochemical engineering in the 1940s, for example, found application in the pharmaceutical industr... |
Kilborn (born 1962) Taran Killam (born 1982) Laurie Kilmartin (born 1965) Jimmy Kimmel (born 1967) Kyle Kinane (born 1976) Richard Kind (born 1956) Andy Kindler (born 1956) Alan King (1927–2004) Anthony King Georgia King (born 1986) Jaime King (born 1979) Michael Patrick King (born 1954) Sam Kinison (1953–1992) Greg Ki... | Tato Bores (1927–1996) Flula Borg (born 1982) Victor Borge (1909–2000) Kyle Bornheimer (born 1975) Alex Borstein (born 1971) Loren Bouchard (born 1969) Peter Boyle (1935–2006) Lilan Bowden (born 1985) Andrew Bowen (born 1972) Julie Bowen (born 1970) John Ross Bowie (born 1971) Max Boyce (born 1945) Frankie Boyle (born ... |
chooses an infinite number of distinct points in the unit interval, then there must be some accumulation point in that interval. For instance, the odd-numbered terms of the sequence get arbitrarily close to 0, while the even-numbered ones get arbitrarily close to 1. The given example sequence shows the importance of in... | it is closed and bounded. This implies, by the Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem, that any infinite sequence from the set has a subsequence that converges to a point in the set. Various equivalent notions of compactness, such as sequential compactness and limit point compactness, can be developed in general metric spaces. In... |
most prominently associated with Publius Clodius Pulcher, a popularis politician who gave up his patrician status through an order in order to qualify for the office of tribune of the plebs. Clodius positioned himself as a champion of the urban plebs, supporting free grain for the poor and the right of association in g... | Clodius, Clodii from the Republican era include: Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, presumably a "Clodius" before his adoption Clodius Aesopus, a tragic actor in the 50s BC who may have been a freedman of one of the Clodii Pulchri. Claudia, daughter of Clodius Pulcher and Fulvia, the first wife of emperor Augustus. C... |
educated in the teachings of the ancient Greek philosophers, poets and historians; as he obtained much of his understanding of the theory and practice of rhetoric from the Greek poet Archias and from the Greek rhetorician Apollonius. Cicero used his knowledge of Greek to translate many of the theoretical concepts of Gr... | During Caesar's consulship of 59 BC, the triumvirate had achieved many of their goals of land reform, publicani debt forgiveness, ratification of Pompeian conquests, etc. With Caesar leaving for his provinces, they wished to maintain their stranglehold on politics. They engineered the adoption of patrician Publius Clod... |
the Peloponnese) had a single head of state, styled consul, 28 March 1821 – 26 May 1821: Stamatellos Antonopoulos The Consulate of East Greece (Livadeia) (from 15 November 1821, under the Areopagus of East Greece) was headed 1 April 1821 – 15 November 1821 by three consuls: Lambros Nakos, Ioannis Logothetis & Ioannis F... | consul), Jean-Jacques Cambacérès (second consul), Charles-François Lebrun (third consul), consuls (12 December 1799 – 18 May 1804) Bolognese Republic, 1796 The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consu... |
(which includes Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics). Classical mechanics Mass and inertia Derived kinematic quantities Derived dynamic quantities General energy definitions Every conservative force has a potential energy. By following two principles one can consistently assign a non-relative value to U: Wherever the ... | lists equations from Newtonian mechanics, see analytical mechanics for the more general formulation of classical mechanics (which includes Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics). Classical mechanics Mass and inertia Derived kinematic quantities Derived dynamic quantities General energy definitions Every conservative for... |
course of the last century of the Republic. For example, Gaius Marius held consulships for five years in a row between 104 BC and 100 BC. He was consul seven times in all, also serving in 107 and 86. Officially presented as opportunities for public service, the offices often became mere opportunities for self-aggrandiz... | out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42. Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo ("new man"; comparable to a "self-made man") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul "in his year". Military se... |
once been joined into a supercontinent; Wegener noted the similarity of Mantovani's and his own maps of the former positions of the southern continents. In Mantovani's conjecture, this continent broke due to volcanic activity caused by thermal expansion, and the new continents drifted away from each other because of fu... | suggested in 1908 (published in 1910) that the continents were moved into their present positions by a process of "continental creep", later proposing a mechanism of increased tidal forces during the Cretaceous dragging the crust towards the equator. He was the first to realize that one of the effects of continental mo... |
in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer. The band's biggest hit singles are ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", and "Nightshift"; and funky dance hits which include "Brick House", "Fancy Dancer", "Lady (You Bring Me Up)", and "Too Hot ta Trot". Commodores were inducted into... | been called a "prototype" of Wild Cherry's 1976 big hit "Play That Funky Music". Three albums released in 1975 and 1976, Caught in the Act was funk album, but Movin' On and Hot on the Tracks were pop albums. After those recordings the group developed the mellower sound hinted at in their 1976 top-ten hits, "Sweet Love"... |
collagen. All types of collagens are triple helices, and the differences lie in the make-up of the alpha peptides created in step 2. Transcription of mRNA: About 44 genes are associated with collagen formation, each coding for a specific mRNA sequence, and typically have the "COL" prefix. The beginning of collagen synt... | bacteria and viruses secrete virulence factors, such as the enzyme collagenase, which destroys collagen or interferes with its production. Molecular structure A single collagen molecule, tropocollagen, is used to make up larger collagen aggregates, such as fibrils. It is approximately 300 nm long and 1.5 nm in diameter... |
of our own mortality, inviting the viewer to contemplate the evanescence of life." In later strips, Calvin's creative instincts diversify to include sidewalk drawings (or, as he terms them, examples of "suburban postmodernism"). Watterson also lampooned the academic world. In one example, Calvin carefully crafts an "ar... | are relatively down to earth and whose sensible attitudes serve as a foil for Calvin's outlandish behavior. Calvin's father is a patent attorney (like Watterson's own father), while his mother is a stay-at-home mom. Both parents are unnamed throughout the entire strip, as Watterson insists, "As far as the strip is conc... |
Winter Ales Festival. However, in 2017 this was re-branded as the Great British Beer Festival Winter. Unlike the Great British Beer Festival, the Winter event does not have a permanent venue and is rotated throughout the country every three years. Recent hosts have been Derby and Norwich, with the event currently held ... | founding member of the European Beer Consumers Union (EBCU). History The organisation was founded on 16 March 1971 in Kruger's bar in Dunquin, Kerry, Ireland by Michael Hardman, Graham Lees, Jim Makin, and Bill Mellor, who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing... |
nucleus used in the first reaction is regenerated in the last reaction. After the two positrons emitted annihilate with two ambient electrons producing an additional , the total energy released in one cycle is 26.73 MeV; in some texts, authors are erroneously including the positron annihilation energy in with the beta-... | || ||+ || || || ||+ || |- style="height:2em;" | ||+ || ||→ || ||+ || || || ||+ || |- style="height:2em;" | || || ||→ || ||+ || ||+ || ||+ ||||(half-life of 2.034 minutes) |- style="height:2em;" | ||+ || ||→ || ||+ || || || ||+ || |} where the carbon-12 nucleus used in the first reaction is regenerated in the last react... |
is rolled (the point is made) and pays at the true odds of 2-to-1 if 4 or 10 is the point, 3-to-2 if 5 or 9 is the point, or 6-to-5 if 6 or 8 is the point. Unlike the Pass line bet itself, the Pass line odds bet can be turned "Off" (not working), removed or reduced anytime before it loses. In Las Vegas, generally odds ... | used. If a player wishes to take the bet down after a win the player would receive the whole bet not half even though only one of the two bets can win per roll. The minimum bet on C & E is double the lowest unit bet allowed at the table. So if the minimum single roll bet is $1 the lowest C & E bet allowed would be $2. ... |
the essential unpredictability of war the "fog" of war "friction" — the disparity between the ideal performance of units, organisations or systems and their actual performance in real-world scenarios (Book I, Chapter VII) strategic and operational "centers of gravity" the "culminating point of the offensive" the "culmi... | were among Scharnhorst's primary allies in his efforts to reform the Prussian army between 1807 and 1814. Clausewitz served during the Jena Campaign as aide-de-camp to Prince August. At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on 14 October 1806—when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl W... |
there is some conceptual overlap with structures. Objects created of classes are called Instances. A special case is Generic Functions. Generic Functions are both functions and instances. Functions Common Lisp supports first-class functions. For instance, it is possible to write functions that take other functions as a... | macro: (until (= (random 10) 0) (write-line "Hello")) The code can be expanded using the function macroexpand-1. The expansion for the above example looks like this: (TAGBODY #:START1136 (WHEN (ZEROP (RANDOM 10)) (GO #:END1137)) (PROGN (WRITE-LINE "hello")) (GO #:START1136) #:END1137) During macro expansion the value o... |
abstractions, such as the Homeland Security Advisory System color code in the United States. Similarly, hospital emergency codes often incorporate colors (such as the widely used "Code Blue" indicating a cardiac arrest), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard. Color codes do p... | indicating a cardiac arrest), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard. Color codes do present some potential problems. On forms and signage, the use of color can distract from black and white text. They are often difficult for color blind and blind people to interpret, and even... |
web server CGI.pm, a Perl module for implementing Common Gateway Interface programs Compacted graphite iron, a type of cast iron Corrugated galvanised iron, a type of molded sheet metal Cell Global Identity, a standard identifier for mobile phone cells Organizations California Graduate Institute, an independent graduat... | Institute, an independent graduate school specializing in psychology Catholic Guides of Ireland, a Girl Guide association Chulabhorn Graduate Institute, a private graduate institute in Thailand CGI Aero or RusAir, a Russian airline CGI Inc., a multinational information technology and business process services company C... |
(anatomy), the outermost layer of an organ Cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the vertebrate cerebrum, part of which is the forebrain Motor cortex, the regions of the cerebral cortex involved in voluntary motor functions Prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain Visual cortex, regions of t... | Bleibtreu Cortex (podcast), a 2015– podcast Cortex Command, a 2012 video game Doctor Neo Cortex, a fictional character in the Crash Bandicoot video game series Nina Cortex, the niece of Neo Cortex Cortex, a French jazz funk band featuring Alain Mion Cortex, a Swedish post-punk alternative band featuring Freddie Wadling... |
theory) Family of sets Indexed family Multiset Parametric family Albums Collection Collection (2NE1 album), 2012 Collection (Agnes album), 2013 Collection (Arvingarna album), 2002 Collection (Jason Becker album), 2008 Collection (Tracy Chapman album), 2001 Collection (The Charlatans album) Collection (Dave Grusin album... | album), 2002 Collection (Praxis album), 1998 Collection (The Rankin Family album), 1996 Collection (Lee Ritenour album), 1991 Collection (Joe Sample album), 1991 Collection (Spyro Gyra album), 1991 Collection (The Stranglers album), 1998 Collection (Suicidal Tendencies album), 1993 Collection (Thee Michelle Gun Elephan... |
suffices.) As a result, despite how far one goes, the remaining terms of the sequence never get close to ; hence the sequence is not Cauchy. The utility of Cauchy sequences lies in the fact that in a complete metric space (one where all such sequences are known to converge to a limit), the criterion for convergence dep... | possible in the definition of Cauchy sequence, taking to be ). The existence of a modulus also follows from the principle of dependent choice, which is a weak form of the axiom of choice, and it also follows from an even weaker condition called AC00. Regular Cauchy sequences are sequences with a given modulus of Cauchy... |
1797 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica uses the terms vulgar era and common era synonymously. In 1835, in his book Living Oracles, Alexander Campbell, wrote: "The vulgar Era, or Anno Domini; the fourth year of Jesus Christ, the first of which was but eight days", and also refers to the common era as a synonym for ... | have moved over to using it exclusively. For example, the 2007 World Almanac was the first edition to switch over to BCE/CE, ending a period of 138 years in which the traditional BC/AD dating notation was used. BCE/CE is used by the College Board in its history tests, and by the Norton Anthology of English Literature. ... |
during a voyage (1824–26) to and from the Hawaiian Islands (then known as the "Sandwich islands"). In Hawaii he surveyed harbours which, he noted, were "said not to exist by Captains Cook and Vancouver." On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825. Af... | the theory of navigation at the Royal Naval Academy on 2–4 September 1816, and became a 1st Lieutenant on 1 September 1818. In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean (1818–21), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel ... |
Carboxypeptidase D Chronic pulmonary disease, a pathological condition Cephalopelvic disproportion, when the capacity of the pelvis is inadequate to allow the fetus to negotiate the birth canal Cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer, a common UV product Cyclopentadiene, an organic compound Canonical polyadic decomposition, in ma... | Department (Massachusetts) Camden Police Department (New Jersey), a defunct police department dissolved in 2012 Carmel Police Department (Indiana) Charleston Police Department (West Virginia) Chattanooga Police Department, Tennessee Chicago Police Department, Illinois Cincinnati Police Department, Ohio Cleveland Police... |
2002 Census. That number has been questioned by demographers, who think such population growth after two deadly wars is highly implausible. As of the 2010 Census, Chechens at 1,206,551 make up 95.3% of the republic's population. Other groups include Russians (24,382, or 1.9%), Kumyks (12,221, or 1%), Ingush (1,296 or 0... | was part of the reorganisation of the Soviet Union. This new treaty would have been signed August 22, 1991, which would have transformed 15 republic states into more than 80. The August 19–21, 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt led to the abandonment of this reorganisation. With the impending dissolution of the Soviet Uni... |
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list, of that communion's recognized saints. Catholic Chu... | were to be rigorously examined, in order to prevent the recognition of undeserving persons. Evidence was sought from the court records of the trials or from people who had been present at the trials. Augustine of Hippo (died 430) tells of the procedure which was followed in his day for the recognition of a martyr. The ... |
+ CO2 + H2O Carboxylic acids also react with alcohols to give esters. This process is widely used, e.g. in the production of polyesters. Likewise, carboxylic acids are converted into amides, but this conversion typically does not occur by direct reaction of the carboxylic acid and the amine. Instead esters are typical ... | acid, with a trifluoromethyl substituent, has a pKa of 0.23). Electron-donating substituents give weaker acids (the pKa of formic acid is 3.75 whereas acetic acid, with a methyl substituent, has a pKa of 4.76) Deprotonation of carboxylic acids gives carboxylate anions; these are resonance stabilized, because the negati... |
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Around that time the town had own castle which was ruined at least on two occasions in 1473 and 1482. The Chernobyl castle was rebuilt in the first quarter of the 16th century being located nearby the settlement in a hard to reach area. With revival of the castle, Chernobyl became a county... | signing of the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, Chernobyl was secured after the Sapieha family. Sometime in the 18th century, the place was passed on to the Chodkiewicz family. In the mid-18th century the area around Chernobyl was engulfed in a number of peasant riots, which caused Prince Riepnin to write from Warsaw to Maj... |
color model, which can be overlaid to produce all colors in paint and color printing, cyan is one of the primary colors, along with magenta and yellow. In the additive color system, or RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a computer or television display, cyan is made by mixing equal amounts of green and b... | the printer's cyan below, so when it is reproduced in printing, it is not a primary subtractive color. It is called aqua (a name in use since 1598) because it is a color commonly associated with water, such as the appearance of the water at a tropical beach. Process cyan Cyan is also one of the common inks used in four... |
blood glucose levels is higher than is desired in the intensive regimen. Frequent measurements of blood glucose levels were not used. The down side of this method is that it is difficult to achieve as good results of glycemic control as with intensive insulin therapy. The advantage is that, for diabetics with a regular... | injections of a mixture of regular (or rapid) and intermediate acting insulin are performed two times a day, or to improve overnight glucose, mixed in the morning to cover breakfast and lunch, but with regular (or rapid) acting insulin alone for dinner and intermediate acting insulin at bedtime (instead of being mixed ... |
or UHT sterilisation. The mention "crème fraîche" (fresh cream) can only be used for pasteurised creams conditioned on production site within 24h after pasteurisation. Even if food additives complying with French and European laws are allowed, usually, none will be found in plain "crèmes" and "crèmes fraîches" apart fr... | 6 or 10 percent, all depending on location and brand. Regulations allow cream to contain acidity regulators and stabilizers. For whipping cream, allowed additives include skim milk powder (≤ 0.25%), glucose solids (≤ 0.1%), calcium sulphate (≤ 0.005%), and xanthan gum (≤ 0.02%). The content of milk fat in canned cream ... |
on liquid or solid precursors. High growth rates can be reached using this technique. Classified by type of substrate heating: Hot wall CVD – CVD in which the chamber is heated by an external power source and the substrate is heated by radiation from the heated chamber walls. Cold wall CVD – CVD in which only the subst... | common, often 10−7 Pa. Sub-atmospheric CVD (SACVD) – CVD at sub-atmospheric pressures. Uses tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and Ozone to fill high aspect ratio Si structures with silicon dioxide (SiO2). Most modern CVD is either LPCVD or UHVCVD. Classified by physical characteristics of vapor: Aerosol assisted CVD (AAC... |
own, and the schedule was printed in the local newspapers. Use of the helicopter saved months of construction time, with this phase taking only three and a half weeks instead of the planned six months. The tower was topped-off on April 2, 1975, after 26 months of construction, officially capturing the height record fro... | time), a subsidiary of Sweden's Skanska, a global project-development and construction group. Construction began on February 6, 1973, with massive excavations at the tower base for the foundation. By the time the foundation was complete, of earth and shale were removed to a depth of in the centre, and a base incorporat... |
that sends to . The derivative of the reciprocal function is . By applying the chain rule, the last expression becomes: which is the usual formula for the quotient rule. Derivatives of inverse functions Suppose that has an inverse function. Call its inverse function so that we have . There is a formula for the derivati... | introduce a function as follows: We will show that the difference quotient for is always equal to: Whenever is not equal to , this is clear because the factors of cancel. When equals , then the difference quotient for is zero because equals , and the above product is zero because it equals times zero. So the above prod... |
the input to the algorithm (as opposed to, say, exponential time). The general class of questions for which some algorithm can provide an answer in polynomial time is "P" or "class P". For some questions, there is no known way to find an answer quickly, but if one is provided with information showing what the answer is... | polynomial and algorithmic details, if the polynomial is not very low-order the algorithm might not be sufficiently efficient in practice. In this case the initial proof would be mainly of interest to theoreticians, but the knowledge that a polynomial time solutions are possible would surely spur research into better (... |
according to the category which the interpretant attributes to the sign's way of denoting its object—the rheme, for example a term, is a sign interpreted to represent its object in respect of quality; the dicisign, for example a proposition, is a sign interpreted to represent its object in respect of fact; and the argu... | studied under Peirce at Johns Hopkins. From 1916 onward, Dewey's writings repeatedly mention Peirce with deference. His 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry is much influenced by Peirce. The publication of the first six volumes of Collected Papers (1931–1935), the most important event to date in Peirce studies and one tha... |
of the system decreases with the volume.) In terms of magnitude, the recompression work performed by the surroundings in this step is less than the work performed on the surroundings in step 1 because it occurs at a lower pressure due to the lower temperature (i.e. the resistance to compression is lower under step 3 th... | can be more efficient than a Carnot engine operating between the same reservoirs. Explanation This maximum efficiency is defined as above: is the work done by the system (energy exiting the system as work), is the heat put into the system (heat energy entering the system), is the absolute temperature of the cold reserv... |
and right-hand sides of any production rules may be surrounded by a context of terminal and nonterminal symbols Context-sensitive language, a formal language that can be defined by a context-sensitive grammar (and equivalently by a noncontracting grammar). Context-sensitive is one of the four types of grammars in the C... | the Chomsky hierarchy Context-sensitive help, a kind of online help that is obtained from a specific point in the state of the software, providing help for the situation that is associated with that state Context-sensitive solutions (also called Context Sensitive Design), a theoretical and practical approach to transpo... |
independent as Belize in 1981. Panama, situated in the southernmost part of Central America on the Isthmus of Panama, has for most of its history been culturally and politically linked to South America. Panama was part of the Province of Tierra Firme from 1510 until 1538 when it came under the jurisdiction of the newly... | the Isthmus of Tehuantepec as the northern geographic border of Central America, while others use the northwestern borders of Belize and Guatemala. From there, the Central American land mass extends southeastward to the Atrato River, where it connects to the Pacific Lowlands in northwestern South America. Of the many m... |
function denoting the height of a growing flower at time would be considered continuous. In contrast, the function denoting the amount of money in a bank account at time would be considered discontinuous, since it "jumps" at each point in time when money is deposited or withdrawn. History A form of the epsilon–delta de... | of c, and Camille Jordan allowed it even if the function was defined only at c. All three of those nonequivalent definitions of pointwise continuity are still in use. Eduard Heine provided the first published definition of uniform continuity in 1872, but based these ideas on lectures given by Peter Gustav Lejeune Diric... |
the ball being fixed at a certain point). If the ball has a rough surface, the fluid flowing past it will make it rotate. The rotation axis (oriented according to the right hand rule) points in the direction of the curl of the field at the centre of the ball, and the angular speed of the rotation is half the magnitude ... | examples below. Usage In practice, the above definition is rarely used because in virtually all cases, the curl operator can be applied using some set of curvilinear coordinates, for which simpler representations have been derived. The notation has its origins in the similarities to the 3-dimensional cross product, and... |
Geometry). On the way home from Riemann's lecture, Weber reported that Gauss was full of praise and excitement. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1853. On 23 February 1855, Gauss died of a heart attack in Göttingen (then Kingdom of Hanover and now Lower Saxony); he is interred in the A... | of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the Sun). In the process, he so streamlined the cumbersome mathematics of 18th-century orbital prediction that his work remains a cornerstone of astronomical computation. It introduced the Gaussian gravitational constant, and contained an influential tre... |
rhyme, of what there was to lose by neglecting John Davey." The search for the last speaker is hampered by a lack of transcriptions or audio recordings, so that it is impossible to tell, from this distance, whether the language these people were reported to be speaking was Cornish, or English with a heavy Cornish subst... | the plays used sizable amounts of Cornish, including a character who spoke only in Cornish and another who spoke both English and Cornish. The event drew thousands over two weeks, also serving as a celebration of Celtic culture. The next production, scheduled for 2024, could, in theory, be entirely in Cornish, without ... |
complexity to assess the probability of the presence of life Complexity theory, the study of complexity Complexity theory, the study of complex systems Computational | Complexity theory and organizations, the application of complexity theory to strategy See also Computational complexity Complexity (disambiguation) Systems theory Complex adaptive system, a special case of complex systems Complex network |
to quench it, which created whirlpools. She lingered on a rock with Scylla facing her directly on another rock, making a strait. In some myths, Charybdis was a voracious woman who stole oxen from Heracles, and was hurled by the thunderbolt of Zeus into the sea, where she retained her voracious nature. The Odyssey Odyss... | and islands in water. Zeus, angry over the land she stole from him, captured and chained her to the sea-bed. Charybdis was then cursed by the god and transformed into a hideous bladder of a monster, with flippers for arms and legs, and an uncontrollable thirst for the sea. As such, she drank the water from the sea thri... |
two months), and spatially variable in concentration. Due to its long lifetime in the mid-troposphere, carbon monoxide is also used as tracer for pollutant plumes. Pollution Urban pollution Carbon monoxide is a temporary atmospheric pollutant in some urban areas, chiefly from the exhaust of internal combustion engines ... | the gas phase, but it can also take place (very slowly) in an aqueous solution. If the hydrogen partial pressure is high enough (for instance in an underground sea), formic acid will be formed: CO + H2O → HCOOH These reactions can take place in a few million years even at temperatures such as found on Pluto. Niche uses... |
of the most important open questions in topology. Riemann hypothesis In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis, proposed by , is a conjecture that the non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function all have real part 1/2. The name is also used for some closely related analogues, such as the Riemann hypothesis for curves o... | to color the regions of the map—so that no two adjacent regions have the same color. Two regions are called adjacent if they share a common boundary that is not a corner, where corners are the points shared by three or more regions. For example, in the map of the United States of America, Utah and Arizona are adjacent,... |
light and colour he imitates Claude Lorrain. His compositions include ruins of ancient buildings in the foreground, but his favourite figure for the foreground was men dressed in Oriental attire. He also produced a series of etchings of birds. His pictures can be found in Dresden, Braunschweig, Vienna, Florence, Naples... | period did, by studying nature. He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples, where he may have been influenced by Nicolas Poussin. He also stayed for some years circa 1712 in Venice, where he painted many works for the patro... |
the rumor that his father Nero Claudius Drusus was actually the illegitimate son of Augustus, to give the appearance that Augustus was Claudius' paternal grandfather. In 9 BC, Claudius's father Drusus unexpectedly died on campaign in Germania after a fall from a horse. He was then left to be raised by his mother, who n... | freedmen had total control of money, letters, and law, it seemed it would not be hard for them to manipulate the Emperor. This is exactly the accusation put forth by the ancient sources. However, these same sources admit that the freedmen were loyal to Claudius. He was similarly appreciative of them and gave them due c... |
film), a British historical drama The Cardinal, a 1963 American film Games Cardinal (chess), a fairy chess piece, also known as the archbishop Cardinal, a participant in the army drinking game Cardinal Puff Music Groups Cardinal (band), indie pop duo formed in 1992 The Cardinals (rock band), a group formed in 2003 The ... | football team Assindia Cardinals, an American football club from Essen, Germany Ball State Cardinals, the athletic teams of Ball State University Cardenales de Lara, a Venezuelan baseball team Catholic University Cardinals, the athletic teams of the Catholic University of America Front Royal Cardinals, an American base... |
topology on the Cantor set, the points have been separated by a clopen set. Consequently, the Cantor set is totally disconnected. As a compact totally disconnected Hausdorff space, the Cantor set is an example of a Stone space. As a topological space, the Cantor set is naturally homeomorphic to the product of countably... | we see the Cantor set as a product space of countably many copies of the discrete space . Then the map defined by is an involutive homeomorphism exchanging and . Conservation law It has been found that some form of conservation law is always responsible behind scaling and self-similarity. In the case of Cantor set it c... |
thus said that two sets with the same cardinality are, respectively, equipotent, equipollent, or equinumerous. Formal definition Formally, assuming the axiom of choice, the cardinality of a set X is the least ordinal number α such that there is a bijection between X and α. This definition is known as the von Neumann ca... | set X (implicit in Cantor and explicit in Frege and Principia Mathematica) is as the class [X] of all sets that are equinumerous with X. This does not work in ZFC or other related systems of axiomatic set theory because if X is non-empty, this collection is too large to be a set. In fact, for X ≠ ∅ there is an injectio... |
countable and uncountable sets If the axiom of choice holds, the law of trichotomy holds for cardinality. Thus we can make the following definitions: Any set X with cardinality less than that of the natural numbers, or | X | < | N |, is said to be a finite set. Any set X that has the same cardinality as the set of the ... | Cantor's first uncountability proof). The continuum hypothesis states that there is no cardinal number between the cardinality of the reals and the cardinality of the natural numbers, that is, However, this hypothesis can neither be proved nor disproved within the widely accepted ZFC axiomatic set theory, if ZFC is con... |
film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants. DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York City. He began his career as a stage actor i... | would stick to his large-budget spectaculars for the rest of his career. Politics and Lux Radio Theatre Cecil B. DeMille was outspoken about his strong Episcopalian integrity but his private life included mistresses and adultery. DeMille was a conservative Republican activist, becoming more conservative as he aged. He ... |
aid of heaven we have pacified you; you are our slaves. Yet you do not eat our food or drink. How can this be right?” He thereupon made them eat. “If you slaughter sheep, you will be considered guilty of a crime.” He issued a regulation to that effect ... [In 1279/1280 under Qubilai] all the Muslims say: “if someone el... | this difference is due to availability of the ingredients. Oxen have been long used for farming and Chinese governments have frequently strictly prohibited the slaughter of oxen for food. However, due to the geographic proximity of the northern part of China to minority-dominated regions that were not subjected to such... |
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