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Oirots were called Altai Kalmyks by Russians. They were not Muslims or Kazakhs.) But Boris Shaposhnikov, who served with Pyotr Kornilov, the brother of Lavr, in 1903, mentioned the "Kyrgyz" ancestry of their mother - this name was usually used in reference to Kazakhs in 1903. Kornilov's Siberian Cossack father was a fr... | major general, he was a high-value prisoner of war, but in July 1916 Kornilov managed to escape back to Russia and return to duty. After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, he was given command of the Petrograd Military District in March 1917. On 8 March, Kornilov placed the Empress Alexandra and her children under hou... |
de gramatiko de novjuda lingvo (An attempt at a grammar of neo-Jewish language), Helsinki, pp. 9–36. In this work, not only does he provide a review of Yiddish grammar, but also proposes its transition to the Latin script and other orthographic innovations. In the same period Zamenhof wrote some other works in Yiddish,... | it." Name Zamenhof came from a multilingual area. His name is variously transliterated, depending on the language: English: – English prononciation: Esperanto: – French: – German: – Hebrew: – Hebrew translitteration: Eli'ezer Ludwig Zamenhof Lithuanian: Polish: – Russian: – Russian translitteration: Lyudvik Lazar' (Ley... |
matrix depend on the bases chosen. The matrices of a linear transformation can be represented visually: Matrix for relative to : Matrix for relative to : Transition matrix from to : Transition matrix from to : Such that starting in the bottom left corner and looking for the bottom right corner , one would left-multiply... | spaces and by and respectively, it follows that Let and in the equation for homogeneity of degree 1: A linear map with viewed as a one-dimensional vector space over itself is called a linear functional. These statements generalize to any left-module over a ring without modification, and to any right-module upon reversi... |
on a shaft. When Guericke held his hand against the ball and turned the shaft quickly, a static electric charge built up. This experiment inspired the development of several forms of "friction machines", that greatly helped in the study of electricity. The Leyden jar was effectively discovered independently by two part... | at Leiden University, who also ran a family foundry which cast brass cannonettes, and a small business (De Oosterse Lamp – "The Eastern Lamp") which made scientific and medical instruments for the new university courses in physics and for scientific gentlemen keen to establish their own 'cabinets' of curiosities and in... |
which allowed the graffiti, and is located at Velkopřevorské náměstí (Grand Priory Square), Malá Strana. On 17 November 2014, the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the wall was painted over in pure white by a group of art students, leaving only the text "wall is over" . The Knights of Malta initially filed a c... | of the singer-songwriter and some lyrics. In 1988, the wall was a source of irritation for Gustáv Husák's communist regime. Following a short-lived era of democratization and political liberalization known as the Prague Spring, the newly-installed communist government dismantled the reforms, inspiring anger and resista... |
increased to about 650 residents. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the historic district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles. Mexican rule New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo continued as a part of Mexico. During Mexican rule,... | are more than 1,100 annual theatrical productions and 21 openings every week." The Los Angeles Music Center is "one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation", with more than 1.3 million visitors per year. The Walt Disney Concert Hall, centerpiece of the Music Center, is home to the prestigious Los Ang... |
Lepus. Alpha Leporis, the brightest star of Lepus, is a white supergiant of magnitude 2.6, 1300 light-years from Earth. Its traditional name, Arneb (أرنب ’arnab), means "hare" in Arabic. Beta Leporis, traditionally known as Nihal (Arabic for "quenching their thirst"), is a yellow giant of magnitude 2.8, 159 light-years... | pursue it. The constellation is also associated with the Moon rabbit. Four stars of this constellation (α, β, γ, δ Lep) form a quadrilateral and are known as ‘Arsh al-Jawzā', "the Throne of Jawzā'" or Kursiyy al-Jawzā' al-Mu'akhkhar, "the Hindmost Chair of Jawzā'" and al-Nihāl, "the Camels Quenching Their Thirst" in Ar... |
in modern transliteration as Qíguān, the Imperial Guards. Most of the brightest stars in Lupus are massive members of the nearest OB association, Scorpius–Centaurus. Alpha Lupi is an ageing blue giant star of spectral type B1.5 III that is 460 ± 10 light-years distant from Earth. It is a Beta Cephei variable, pulsating... | separated from Centaurus until Hipparchus of Bithynia named it ( meaning "beast") in the 2nd century BC. The Greek constellation is probably based on the Babylonian figure known as the Mad Dog (UR.IDIM). This was a strange hybrid creature that combined the head and torso of a man with the legs and tail of a lion (the c... |
so, it would be by far the hottest such variable discovered. In the extreme east is RR Lyrae, the prototype of the large class of variables known as RR Lyrae variables, which are pulsating variables similar to Cepheids, but are evolved population II stars of spectral types A and F. Such stars are usually not found in a... | similar to Cepheids, but are evolved population II stars of spectral types A and F. Such stars are usually not found in a galaxy's thin disk, but rather in the galactic halo. Such stars serve as standard candles, and thus are a reliable way to calculate distances to the globular clusters in which they reside. RR Lyrae ... |
Liegnitz and all of Silesia east of the Neisse was preliminarily transferred to Poland following the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Majority of the German population was either expelled or fled from the city. The city was repopulated with Poles, some of whom were expelled from pre-war eastern Poland after its annexation b... | Legnica was established. After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia at Mohács in 1526, Legnica became a fief of the Habsburg Monarchy of Austria. The first map of Silesia was made by native son Martin Helwig. The city suffered during the Thirty Years' War. In 1633 a plague epidemic broke out, and in 1634 t... |
Anderlecht, as Ian St John recalled in his autobiography: The Liverpool away strip has more often than not been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions. An all grey kit was introduced in 1987, which was used until the 1991–92 centenary season when it was replaced by a combina... | been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions. An all grey kit was introduced in 1987, which was used until the 1991–92 centenary season when it was replaced by a combination of green shirts and white shorts. After various colour combinations in the 1990s, including gold and n... |
to its substrate, and that the enzymes were able to diffuse after a few days (and react with their substrate). They described this membrane-like barrier as a "saclike structure surrounded by a membrane and containing acid phosphatase." It became clear that this enzyme from the cell fraction came from membranous fractio... | that this enzyme played a key role in regulating blood sugar levels. However, even after a series of experiments, they failed to purify and isolate the enzyme from the cellular extracts. Therefore, they tried a more arduous procedure of cell fractionation, by which cellular components are separated based on their sizes... |
pitch. For a right-handed batsman, that is away from the leg side, and this is where it gets the name leg break. Leg spinners bowl mostly leg breaks, varying them by adjusting the line and length, and amount of side spin versus topspin of the deliveries. Leg spinners also typically use variations of flight by sometimes... | the offside, and so can also be bowled by other types of bowler. In this case, leg breaks are (only) mostly bowled by leg spinners. Leg spinner: The term leg spinner can be used to mean either the bowler or the leg break delivery. Leggie: The term leggie can also be used to mean either the bowler or the leg break deliv... |
machine was well known for its advanced development environment (InterLisp-D), the ROOMS window manager, for its early graphical user interface and for novel applications like NoteCards (one of the first hypertext applications). Xerox also worked on a Lisp machine based on reduced instruction set computing (RISC), usin... | abandoned the CADR architecture and developed its own K-Machine, but LMI went bankrupt before the machine could be brought to market. Before its demise, LMI was working on a distributed system for the LAMBDA using Moby space. These machines had hardware support for various primitive Lisp operations (data type testing, ... |
but it does not display many pages as they were intended. The graphical mode works even on Unix systems without the X Window System or any other window environment, using either SVGAlib or the framebuffer of the system's graphics card. The source code is available on Github. Graphics stack The graphics stack has severa... | legibility on LCD displays. This allowed Links to have anti-aliased fonts at a time when anti-aliased font libraries were uncommon. All graphic elements (images and text) are first converted from given gamma space (according to known or assumed gamma information in PNG, JPEG etc.) through known user gamma setting into ... |
or training". Chiappe defined Learning Objects as: "A digital self-contained and reusable entity, with a clear educational purpose, with at least three internal and editable components: content, learning activities and elements of context. The learning objects must have an external structure of information to facilitat... | IEEE 1484.12 Learning object metadata. To support reusability, the IMS Consortium proposed a series of specifications such as the IMS Content package. And to support interoperability, the U.S. military's Advanced Distributed Learning organization created the Sharable Content Object Reference Model. Learning objects wer... |
name Labour (or Labor) Party, or similar, is used by political parties around the world, particularly in countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. They are usually, but not exclusively, social-democratic or democratic-socialist and traditionally allied to trade unions and the labour movement. Many labour parties are me... | parties See also Labour Party (disambiguation) Communist party List of communist parties Democratic Socialist Party (disambiguation) Labour government Labour movement List of left-wing political parties Social Democratic Party List of social democratic parties Socialist Labour Party (disambiguation) Socialist Party Soc... |
BC. The Poverty Point culture was followed by the Tchefuncte and Lake Cormorant cultures of the Tchula period, local manifestations of Early Woodland period. The Tchefuncte culture were the first people in the area of Louisiana to make large amounts of pottery. These cultures lasted until AD 200. The Middle Woodland pe... | Following the American Civil War and emancipation of slaves, violence rose in the southern U.S. as the war was carried on by insurgent private and paramilitary groups. During the initial period afer the war, there was a massive rise in Black participation in terms of voting and holding political office. Louisiana saw t... |
every LAX terminal in a counter-clockwise direction, starting at terminal 1. The service hours vary based on the line, with most leaving on or near the top of the hour. Buses use the regional system of high-occupancy vehicle lanes and high-occupancy toll lanes (Metro ExpressLanes) to expedite their trips. Metro Rail LA... | crosses under the airport runways. Taxis, ride-share and private shuttles Arriving passengers take a shuttle or walk to the LAXit waiting area east of Terminal 1 for taxi or ride-share pickups. Taxicab services are operated by nine city-authorized taxi companies and regulated by Authorized Taxicab Supervision Inc. (ATS... |
therefore common to also talk of the "La Tène period" in the context of those regions even though they were never part of the La Tène culture proper, but connected to its core area via trade. Ethnology The bearers of the La Tène culture were the people known as Celts or Gauls to ancient ethnographers. Ancient Celtic cu... | be linguistically linked is debated. The art history of La Tène culture has various schemes of periodization. The archaeological period is now mostly divided into four sub-periods, following Paul Reinecke. History The preceding final phase of the Hallstatt culture, HaD, c. 650–450 BC, was also widespread across Central... |
in the diagram. Definition and calculation The Lorenz curve is a probability plot (a P–P plot) comparing the distribution of a variable against a hypothetical uniform distribution of that variable. It can usually be represented by a function L(F), where F, the cumulative portion of the population, is represented by the... | worst risk scores. Explanation Data from 2005. Points on the Lorenz curve represent statements such as, "the bottom 20% of all households have 10% of the total income." A perfectly equal income distribution would be one in which every person has the same income. In this case, the bottom N% of society would always have ... |
illustration of the basic elements of literate programming. Creation of macros The following snippet of the wc literate program shows how arbitrary descriptive phrases in a natural language are used in a literate program to create macros, which act as new "operators" in the literate programming language, and hide chunk... | are language-agnostic and exist above the programming languages. History and philosophy Literate programming was first introduced by Knuth in 1984. The main intention behind this approach was to treat a program as literature understandable to human beings. This approach was implemented at Stanford University as a part ... |
also exhibits chaotic dynamics.) One can also consider values of in the interval , so that remains bounded on . Characteristics of the map Behavior dependent on The image below shows the amplitude and frequency content of some logistic map iterates for parameter values ranging from 2 to 4. By varying the parameter , th... | parameter while the vertical axis shows the set of values of visited asymptotically from almost all initial conditions by the iterates of the logistic equation with that value. The bifurcation diagram is a self-similar: if we zoom in on the above-mentioned value and focus on one arm of the three, the situation nearby l... |
used by the organization known as ISIL, ISIS, and other names, though there is disagreement as to whether this translation is accurate. In archaeology: a definition In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000–332 BCE (OHAL; 2013), the definition of the Levant for the specific purposes of the book i... | the Mediterranean in the 1570s, and the English merchant company signed its agreement ("capitulations") with the Ottoman Sultan in 1579. The English Levant Company was founded in 1581 to trade with the Ottoman Empire, and in 1670 the French Compagnie du Levant was founded for the same purpose. At this time, the Far Eas... |
as (protectorates or territories), which were deemed to require a greater level of control by the mandatory power: "...the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion." The mandatory power was forbidden to construct milit... | C mandates, including South West Africa and certain of the South Pacific Islands, were considered to be "best administered under the laws of the Mandatory as integral portions of its territory" List of mandates Column header abbreviations: C = Class, sov. = sovereignty Rules of establishment According to the Council of... |
is popularly known as Laconia, the location of the race was moved from Belknap Recreation Area to Loudon in 1964. References Motorsport | Hampshire International Speedway) is the longest running motorcycle race in the United States, and is held every year on Father's Day. While it is |
is home to the New Hampshire Highland Games and to a portion of Franconia Notch State Park. Set in the White Mountains, large portions of the town are within the White Mountain National Forest. The Appalachian Trail crosses the western and northeastern parts of the town. Lincoln is the location of Loon Mountain Ski Res... | today the center of Lincoln. In 1902, he built a pulp and paper mill. He erected the Lincoln House hotel in 1903, although a 1907 fire would nearly raze the community. Until he died in 1912, Henry controlled his company town, installing relatives in positions of civic authority. In 1917, Henry's heirs sold the business... |
infantry. Lasers used for this purpose are usually infrared lasers, so the enemy cannot easily detect the guiding laser light. Firearms Laser sight The laser has in most firearms applications been used as a tool to enhance the targeting of other weapon systems. For example, a laser sight'' is a small, usually visible-l... | are used in many ways, including: A wide variety of interferometric techniques Raman spectroscopy Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy Atmospheric remote sensing Investigating nonlinear optics phenomena Holographic techniques employing lasers also contribute to a number of measurement techniques. Laser based lidar (LIg... |
the topspinner (which turns less and bounces higher in the cricket pitch), the arm ball (which does not turn at all, drifts into a right-handed batsman in the direction of the bowler's arm movement; also called a 'floater') and the left-arm spinner's version of a doosra (which turns the other way). Notable slow left ar... | not turn at all, drifts into a right-handed batsman in the direction of the bowler's arm movement; also called a 'floater') and the left-arm spinner's version of a doosra (which turns the other way). Notable slow left arm orthodox spin bowlers Players listed below have been included as they meet specific criteria which... |
hundreds if not thousands of different gain media in which laser operation has been achieved (see list of laser types for a list of the most important ones). The gain medium is excited by the pump source to produce a population inversion, and it is in the gain medium where spontaneous and stimulated emission of photons... | lasers. These are usually organic chemical solvents, such as methanol, ethanol or ethylene glycol, to which are added chemical dyes such as coumarin, rhodamine, and fluorescein. The exact chemical configuration of the dye molecules determines the operation wavelength of the dye laser. Gases, such as carbon dioxide, arg... |
valid, simple argument form. Intuitively, it permits the inference from any conjunction of either element of that conjunction. A and B. Therefore, A. ...or alternatively, A and B. Therefore, B. In logical operator notation: ...or alternatively, Negation Definition A conjunction is proven false by establishing either or... | rule of inference, conjunction introduction is a classically valid, simple argument form. The argument form has two premises, A and B. Intuitively, it permits the inference of their conjunction. A, B. Therefore, A and B. or in logical operator notation: Here is an example of an argument that fits the form conjunction i... |
in 1908; ↔ was used at least by Tarski in 1940; ⇔ was used in Vax; other symbols appeared punctually in the history, such as ⊃⊂ in Gentzen, ~ in Schönfinkel or ⊂⊃ in Chazal. True: the symbol 1 comes from Boole's interpretation of logic as an elementary algebra over the two-element Boolean algebra; other notations inclu... | above. The following are the minimal functionally complete sets of operators in classical logic whose arities do not exceed 2: One element {↑}, {↓}. Two elements , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Three elements , , , , , . Another approach is to use with equal rights connectives of a certain convenient and functional... |
conclusion are propositions. The premises are taken for granted, and with the application of modus ponens (an inference rule), the conclusion follows. As propositional logic is not concerned with the structure of propositions beyond the point where they can't be decomposed any more by logical connectives, this inferenc... | are found in natural languages. In English for example, some examples are "and" (conjunction), "or" (disjunction), "not" (negation) and "if" (but only when used to denote material conditional). The following is an example of a very simple inference within the scope of propositional logic: Premise 1: If it's raining the... |
and James H. Morris and by Daniel P. Friedman and David S. Wise. Applications Delayed evaluation is used particularly in functional programming languages. When using delayed evaluation, an expression is not evaluated as soon as it gets bound to a variable, but when the evaluator is forced to produce the expression's va... | pages from disk, so that only those pages actually touched are loaded into memory, and unneeded memory is not allocated. MATLAB implements copy on edit, where arrays which are copied have their actual memory storage replicated only when their content is changed, possibly leading to an out of memory error when updating ... |
They have long, bushy tails and soft, woolly fur of varying coloration. The hindlegs are slightly longer than the forelegs, although not enough to hamper fully quadrupedal movement (unlike the sportive lemurs). Most species are highly agile, and regularly leap several metres between trees. They have a good sense of sme... | families commonly known as lemurs. These animals were once thought to be the evolutionary predecessors of monkeys and apes, but this is no longer considered correct. They are formally referred to as lemurids. Classification The family Lemuridae contains 21 extant species in five genera. Family Lemuridae Genus Lemur Rin... |
them. This continues the Dante theme, although moving away from his Divine Comedy to the poem La Vita Nuova. Logo The Lucent logo, the Innovation Ring, was designed by Landor Associates, a prominent San Francisco-based branding consultancy. One source inside Lucent says that the logo is a Zen Buddhist symbol for "etern... | sterile geometric logos of most high tech companies. After the logo was compared in the media to the ring a coffee mug leaves on paper, a Dilbert comic strip showed Dogbert as an overpaid consultant designing a new company logo; he takes a piece of paper that his coffee cup was sitting on and calls it the "Brown Ring o... |
goats) and a dog were sacrificed by one or another of the Luperci, under the supervision of the Flamen dialis, Jupiter's chief priest. An offering was also made of salted mealcakes, prepared by the Vestal Virgins. After the blood sacrifice, two Luperci approached the altar. Their foreheads were anointed with blood from... | in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy. The Luperci completed their circuit of the Palatine, then returned to the Lupercal cave. History The Februa was of ancient and possibly Sabine origin. After February was added to the Roman calendar, Februa occurred on its fifteenth day (). Of its various rituals, the most impor... |
have publicly identified themselves as atheists. Lists by country, territory, or people List of atheist Americans List of atheist Armenians List of Dutch atheists List of Jewish atheists and agnostics List of South African atheists Lists by profession List of atheist activists and educators List of atheist authors List... | atheists (surnames H to K) List of atheists (surnames L to M) List of atheists (surnames N to Q) List of atheists (surnames R to S) List of atheists (surnames T to Z) See also List of nonreligious Nobel laureates List of fictitious atheists and agnostics Lists of people by belief (including non-beliefs) List of agnosti... |
President of the Soka Gakkai International Sangharakshita (1925–2018) Edward Salim Michael (1921—2006) Nakamura Hajime (1911–1999) Nishida Kitaro (1870–1945) Gudo Wafu Nishijima (1919–2014) Nishitani Keiji (1900–1990) Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), major revivalist of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and a Buddhist modernist for... | Zen master of the Rinzai school Dōgen Zenji (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō school of Zen, based upon the Caodong school Eisai (1141–1215), travelled to China and returned to found the Rinzai school of Zen] Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769), Rinzai school of Zen] Hōnen (1133–1212), founder of the Jōdo-shū school of Pure Land B... |
did not believe in God, and that he was mostly agnostic Sidney Poitier (1927–2022): Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat; his views are closer to deism Hugo Riemann (1949–1919): German music theorist and composer Joe Rogan (born 1967): American comedian, podcaster, social critic and UFC color co... | Conan Doyle (1859–1930): Scottish physician and writer; known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes; a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963): American sociologist, historian, civil rights ac... |
Newell, Cliff Shaw and Herbert A. Simon at RAND Corporation as the primary data structure for their Information Processing Language. IPL was used by the authors to develop several early artificial intelligence programs, including the Logic Theory Machine, the General Problem Solver, and a computer chess program. Report... | be adapted for doubly linked and circularly linked lists, the procedures generally need extra arguments and more complicated base cases. Linear singly linked lists also allow tail-sharing, the use of a common final portion of sub-list as the terminal portion of two different lists. In particular, if a new node is added... |
(DTL). Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) then supplanted DTL. As integrated circuits became more complex, bipolar transistors were replaced with smaller field-effect transistors (MOSFETs); see PMOS and NMOS. To reduce power consumption still further, most contemporary chip implementations of digital systems now use CMO... | Bell Labs engineers Mohamed M. Atalla and Dawon Kahng in 1960. Both types were later combined and adapted into complementary MOS (CMOS) logic by Chih-Tang Sah and Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963. Active research is taking place in molecular logic gates. Symbols There are two sets of symbols for element... |
the end of the list), in which case n comparisons are needed. If the value being sought occurs k times in the list, and all orderings of the list are equally likely, the expected number of comparisons is For example, if the value being sought occurs once in the list, and all orderings of the list are equally likely, th... | the end of the list, the search terminates unsuccessfully. Basic algorithm Given a list of elements with values or records , and target value , the following subroutine uses linear search to find the index of the target in . Set to 0. If , the search terminates successfully; return . Increase by 1. If , go to step 2. O... |
the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, also known as the Ottawa Treaty. To date, 164 nations have signed the treaty, but these do not include China, the Russian Federation, or the United States. Definition In the Anti-Per... | mounted on stakes. While the Germans were advancing rapidly using blitzkrieg tactics, they did not make much use of mines. After 1942, however, they were on the defensive and became the most inventive and systematic users of mines. Their production shot up and they began inventing new types of mines as the Allies found... |
not all of them support all elements of libertarianism. Most of these political parties are right-libertarians, or are right-leaning for favouring classical liberalism and economic liberalism, as left-libertarians take a different approach, generally opposing electoral politics and political parties themselves; excepti... | in Chile, Libertarian Peru (now Free Peru), and the Radical Party in Italy. Active parties by country Defunct parties by country Organizations associated with Libertarian parties See also Liberal parties by country List of libertarian organizations Lists of political parties Outline |
amid the mixing of different West African traditional religions and the influence of the French colonists' Roman Catholicism. From at least the 19th century, Haitian migrants took their religion to Louisiana, by that point part of the United States, where they contributed to the formation of Louisiana Voodoo, a religio... | and vigor, and these will restore the divine energy of the god." Because Agwé is believed to reside in the sea, rituals devoted to him often take place beside a large body of water such as a lake, river, or sea. His devotees sometimes sail out to Trois Ilets, drumming and singing, where they throw a white sheep overboa... |
into the provision of labour—that is, will work more hours to take advantage of the higher wage rate, or in other words substitute away from leisure because of its higher opportunity cost. This substitution effect is represented by the shift from point C to point B. The net impact of these two effects is shown by the s... | used to show a variety of interesting effects. This is because the absolute value of the slope of the budget constraint is the wage rate. The point of optimisation (point A) reflects the equivalency between the wage rate and the marginal rate of substitution of leisure for income (the absolute value of the slope of the... |
of 1969 the feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori was transferred to this day, the day of St. Alphonsus' death. While Loaf Mass Day is traditionally a Christian holy day, Lughnasadh is celebrated by Neopagans around the same time. History Ann Lewin explains a key practice of the Christian feast of Lammas (Loaf Mass Day) and i... | "throat, neck," from Latin "throat". Several antiquaries beginning with John Brady offered a back-construction to its being originally known as Lamb-mass, under the undocumented supposition that tenants of the Cathedral of York, dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula, of which this is the feast, would have been required to ... |
were 5,879 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 95.42% White, 0.69% African American, 0.05% Native American, 2.90% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 0.62% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.09% of the population. There were 5,734 ... | the northern border of the town. The private Twin Hills and public Franconia golf courses, plus town athletic fields and conservation land, cover nearly 2/3 of the eastern border of the town. Two large public parks, the Longmeadow Country Club, and three conservation areas account for the bulk of the remaining formal o... |
Kaiadilt and Thaayorre have no words denoting the egocentric directions in their language; instead, they exclusively refer to cardinal directions, even when describing small-scale spaces. For instance, if they wanted someone to move over on the car seat to make room, they might say "move a bit to the east". To tell som... | navigational tasks, such as driving according to road signs or following a map, but may have difficulty performing actions that require a precise understanding of directional commands, such as ballroom dancing. Prevalence Data regarding LRC prevalence is primarily based on behavioral studies, self-assessments, and surv... |
that use sit-and-wait hunting strategies. Males establish and maintain territories that contain resources which attract females and which they defend from other males. Important resources include basking, feeding, and nesting sites as well as refuges from predators. The habitat of a species affects the structure of ter... | and to intimidate rivals. Visual displays include body postures and inflation, push-ups, bright colours, mouth gapings and tail waggings. Male anoles and iguanas have dewlaps or skin flaps which come in various sizes, colours and patterns and the expansion of the dewlap as well as head-bobs and body movements add to th... |
band Bad Religion Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648), British soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher Harish-Chandra (1923–1983), Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. James Heckman (194... | statistical thermodynamics. Max Born (1882–1970), German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel ... |
the Priestly code and actually produced Leviticus as we now have it. Themes Sacrifice and ritual Many scholars argue that the rituals of Leviticus have a theological meaning concerning Israel's relationship with its God. Jacob Milgrom was especially influential in spreading this view. He maintained that the priestly re... | "life force", usually but not always blood. Leviticus 16 concerns the Day of Atonement. This is the only day on which the High Priest is to enter the holiest part of the sanctuary, the holy of holies. He is to sacrifice a bull for the sins of the priests, and a goat for the sins of the laypeople. The priest is to send ... |
soon as Hamlin got word of his death in 1904. Beginning with the success of the stage version, most subsequent versions of the story, including newer editions of the novel, have been titled "The Wizard of Oz", rather than using the full, original title. In more recent years, restoring the full title has become increasi... | the basis for Tik-Tok of Oz), a modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway. Morosco, incidentally, quickly turned to film production, as did Baum. In 1914, Baum started his own film production company The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, which came as an ou... |
until the 12th century AD or so. At 9,500 BP, Lake Onega, previously draining into the White Sea, started emptying into Ladoga via the River Svir. Between 9,500 and 9,100 BP, during the transgression of Ancylus Lake, the next freshwater stage of the Baltic, Ladoga certainly became part of it, even if they hadn't been c... | into an ice stream that fed glacier lobes further east. Deglaciation following the Weichselian glaciation took place in the Lake Ladoga basin between 12,500 and 11,500 radiocarbon years BP. Lake Ladoga was initially part of the Baltic Ice Lake (70–80 m. above present sea level), a historical freshwater stage of Baltic ... |
that enough is known about the isolate to compare it genetically to other languages but no common ancestry or relationship is found with any other known language. A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Albanian and Armenian within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but the meaning o... | isolate with dialects) to nearly twenty—until the classification of Ryukyuan as separate languages within a Japonic language family rather than dialects of Japanese, the Japanese language itself was considered a language isolate and therefore the only language in its family. Isolates Most of the world's languages are k... |
is as well-known to inhabitants and visitors to Looe as the palms of their hands, no one has determined to what particular class of battleship she belongs, indeed all are familiar with the shapely hulk lying seaward of Hannafore as Looe Island (or, cartographically St. Georges Island)". In the 20th century, Looe island... | was like to live there. Evelyn died in 1997 at the age of 87; Babs continued to live on the island until her death in 2004, at the age of 86. On her death, the island was bequeathed to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust; it will be preserved as a nature reserve in perpetuity. Today the wardens for Cornwall Wildlife Trust live... |
footnotes, cross-references and bibliographies. LaTeX was originally written in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport at SRI International. The current version is LaTeX2e (stylised as ), released in 1994, but updated in 2020. LaTeX3 () has been under long-term development since the early 1990s. LaTeX is free software and i... | opened with any text editor. They consist of plain text and do not contain hidden formatting codes or binary instructions. Additionally, TeX documents can be shared by rendering the LaTeX file to Rich Text Format (*.rtf), XML, or the container format. This can be done using the free software programs LaTeX2RTF or TeX4h... |
process of "canonization" and each individual jurisdiction within the two Orthodox communions independently maintains parallel lists of saints that have only partial overlap. The Anglican Communion recognizes pre-Reformation saints, as does the United Methodist Church. Persons who have led lives of celebrated sanctity ... | attributes included as part of the historical name). Listed Canonized Roman Catholic saints have been through a formal institutional process resulting in their canonization. There have been thousands of canonizations. (Pope John Paul II alone canonized 110 individuals, as well as many group canonizations such as 110 ma... |
obtained by small variation of the Peano curve construction). The dragon curve is another unusual example. Any line in , for , has a zero Lebesgue measure. In general, every proper hyperplane has a zero Lebesgue measure in its ambient space. Properties The Lebesgue measure on Rn has the following properties: If A is a ... | the Lebesgue outer measure. Whether this outer measure translates to the Lebesgue measure proper depends on an additional condition. This condition is tested by taking subsets of the real numbers using as an instrument to split into two partitions: the part of which intersects with and the remaining part of which is no... |
of a British convoy carrying 10,000 British and Hessian troops to Canada, the Continental forces retreated back down the Champlain Valley to reevaluate their strategy. "I know of no better method than to secure the important posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and by building a number of armed vessels to command the ... | Arnold called a council of war with his fellow officers, proposing to escape the British fleet via rowboats under the cover of night. As the British burned Arnold's flagship, the Royal Savage, to the east, the Americans rowed past the British lines. The following morning, the British learned of the Americans' escape an... |
equivalences: two expressions are α-equivalent, if they can be α-converted into the same expression. β-equivalence and η-equivalence are defined similarly. The term redex, short for reducible expression, refers to subterms that can be reduced by one of the reduction rules. For example, (λx.M) N is a β-redex in expressi... | need for an explicit NULL test). As an example of the use of pairs, the shift-and-increment function that maps to can be defined as which allows us to give perhaps the most transparent version of the predecessor function: Additional programming techniques There is a considerable body of programming idioms for lambda ca... |
video, and images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast, lossless compression is typically required for text and data files, such as bank records and text articles. It can be advantageous to make a master lossless file which can then be used to produce additional copie... | lossy compression algorithm is the discrete cosine transform (DCT), first published by Nasir Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974. In 2019 a new family of sinusoidal-hyperbolic transform functions, which have comparable properties and performance with DCT, were proposed for lossy compression. Lossy compression is ... |
Lossless (Windows Media Lossless) Raster graphics AVIF – AOMedia Video 1 Image File Format FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format (lossless or lossy compression, using HEVC) ILBM – (lossless RLE compression of Amiga IFF images) JBIG2 – (lossless or lossy compression of B&W images) JP... | then this model is stored with the compressed data. This approach is simple and modular, but has the disadvantage that the model itself can be expensive to store, and also that it forces using a single model for all data being compressed, and so performs poorly on files that contain heterogeneous data. Adaptive models ... |
efficient version of a Dyson sphere, which could produce the effect of surface gravity through rotation. Given that spinning a Dyson sphere would result in the atmosphere pooling around the equator, the Ringworld removes all the extraneous parts of the structure, leaving a spinning band landscaped on the sun-facing sid... | stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternative realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a roc and a unicorn. Much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaborati... |
the first binaries until the system is self-hosting. This can be done via compilation on another system capable of building binaries for the intended target (possibly by cross-compilation). For example, see Linux From Scratch. Types and trends In broad terms, Linux distributions may be: Commercial or non-commercial Des... | sessions cannot be stored on the boot device but must be written to another storage device, such as a USB flash drive or a hard disk drive. Many Linux distributions provide a "live" form in addition to their conventional form, which is a network-based or removable-media image intended to be used only for installation; ... |
attendance, attracting over 3.8 million fans. On March 28, 2008, the Dodgers set the world record for the largest attendance for a single baseball game during an exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in honor of the Dodgers' 50th anniversary, with 115,300 fans in attendance. In... | longer well-served by its aging infrastructure and the Dodgers could no longer sell out the park even in the heat of a pennant race, despite largely dominating the National League from 1946 to 1957. O'Malley wanted to build a new, state-of-the-art stadium in Brooklyn. But City Planner Robert Moses and New York politici... |
Berio. Andriessen taught at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague from 1974 to 2012, influencing notable composers. His opera La Commedia, based on Dante's Divine Comedy, won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and was selected in 2019 by critics at The Guardian as one of the most outstanding compositions of ... | by Mikhail Bakunin, Arthur Arnould) for 2 high baritones, orchestra (12 brass, 2 harps, cimbalom, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, minimum 10 strings, bass guitar) Music for the film The Alien (1980) (Rudolf van den Berg) George Sand (1980) (text by Mia Meyer) Music theatre work for 8 mixed voices, 4 pianos Un beau baiser (1980... |
Butler, all AIM members who were present on the Jumping Bull compound at the time of the shootings. Leonard Peltier provided numerous alibis to several people about his activities on the morning of the attacks. In an interview with the author Peter Matthiessen (In the Spirit of Crazy Horse 1983), Peltier described work... | taken its toll." DeMain said he was also told that the motive for the execution-style murder of high-ranking AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash in December 1975 at Pine Ridge "allegedly was her knowledge that Leonard Peltier had shot the two agents, as he was convicted." DeMain did not accuse Peltier of participation in the ... |
variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today. LambdaMOO was founded in 1990 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC. Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on a volunteer basis. Guests are allowed, and membership is free to anyone with an e-mail address. LambdaMOO gained some notoriet... | a second area, "The Linen Closet" (specially programmed as a silent area) was later added as an alternative connection point. The coat closet opens onto the center of the house in The Living Room, a common hangout and place for conversation; its fixtures include a fireplace (where things can be roasted), The Living Roo... |
BC. The armor was first used in the early 1st century. Although, the exact time in which the Romans adopted the armor remains unknown. Some say it was after Crassus' defeat at Carrhae in 53 BC. Others say the armor was adopted in 21 AD after the Revolt of Julius Sacrovir and Julius Florus. One form of the armor was use... | century BC. The armor was first used in the early 1st century. Although, the exact time in which the Romans adopted the armor remains unknown. Some say it was after Crassus' defeat at Carrhae in 53 BC. Others say the armor was adopted in 21 AD after the Revolt of Julius Sacrovir and Julius Florus. One form of the armor... |
dense and too hot to breathe, and is inhabited only by the Bandersnatchi. The zones between the vacuum areas and the high-density belt area have atmosphere breathable by humans. Jinx's "East" and "West" ends become a major in vacuo manufacturing area. Jinxian humans are short and squat, the strongest bipeds in Known Sp... | perfection of organ transplant technology, all state executions were done in hospitals to provide organ transplants, and to maximize their availability nearly all crimes carried the death penalty, including such offenses as multiple traffic tickets or tax evasion. This period ended when Jack Brennan, who had consumed t... |
German woman and an American soldier who was stationed in West Germany, grew up on Long Island in New York, where he always dreamed of flying. As a child, he assembled model airplanes, collected aviation memorabilia and read books on aviation. He was 15 years old when he started flight instruction in a Cessna 152. Work... | Methodius School in 1979 and St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in 1983. He entered the United States Air Force Academy as a member of the class of 1987. As an upperclassman, he was a member of Cadet Squadron 31. He graduated on May 27, 1987, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. Aft... |
Long Beach Airport (IATA code), California, US Other uses The Larger Grain Borer (LGB), Prostephanus truncatus Laser-guided bomb Lectures on Government and | campus of the International School of Geneva Long Beach Airport (IATA code), California, US Other uses The Larger Grain Borer |
and services ranging from variety of accounts, attractive rates for fixed deposits, international debit and credit cards, international money transfer services, treasury and forex services, mobile wallet and trade finance facilities. References "Capitalism Comes to Afghanistan". Time. (December 4, 2006). "Life's a lott... | on June 13, 2006, and is headquartered in Zanbaq Square, Kabul, Afghanistan. The banks caters to a wide gamut of products and services ranging from variety of accounts, attractive rates for fixed deposits, international debit and |
the future, who offer to help him escape to their time permanently; but he asks instead to be returned to the pre-war time of his childhood, hoping to find the woman again. He is returned to the past, placed on the jetty at the airport, and it occurs to him that the child version of himself is probably also there at th... | and they develop a romantic relationship. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the far future. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society. Upon his return, with hi... |
seahorses. In New Zealand, important little penguin prey items include arrow squid, slender sprat, Graham's gudgeon, red cod and ahuru. Since the year 2000, the little penguins of Port Phillip Bay's diet has consisted mainly of barracouta, anchovy, and arrow squid. Pilchards previously featured more prominently in sout... | spend the largest part of their day swimming and foraging at sea. During the breeding and chick-rearing seasons, little penguins leave their nest at sunrise, forage for food throughout the day and return to their nests just after dusk. Thus, sunlight, moonlight and artificial lights can affect the behaviour of attendan... |
been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake. The construction of railways in 1861 and 1909 increased tourism substantially, but the post-war boom of the 1950s was much larger. By the turn of the 20th century, Balaton had... | forests and swamps along the river Zala. His well-fortified castle and capital of Lower Pannonian Principality that became known as Blatnohrad or Moosburg ("Swamp Fortress") served as a bulwark both against the Bulgarians and the Moravians. The German name for the lake is . It is unlikely it was given that name for bei... |
across the brow, and a red, full-lipped mouth that hints at the Gothic affectations in figural representation coming out of France during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The style in the miniature in Folio 76v is markedly different from the style in Folio 53v. In this case, the framed miniature contain... | be seated on rugs on the ground, as suggested by the ceramic containers that are placed on or front of the rug near the man on the right side of the board, the figures' seated positions, which are full frontal with knees bent at right angles, suggests that they are seated on stools or perhaps upholstered benches. The f... |
treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder. There is extensive pharmacology of lithium, the active component of this salt. Lithia water contains various lithium salts, including the citrate. An early version of Coca-Cola available in pharmacies' soda fountains called Lithia Coke was a mixture of Coca-Cola syrup and... | formulated in 1929 because it contained lithium citrate. The beverage was a patent medicine marketed as a cure for hangover. Lithium citrate was removed from 7Up in 1948. References Citrates Lithium compounds Mood |
used to impart a red color to fireworks. Properties and reactions Unlike sodium carbonate, which forms at least three hydrates, lithium carbonate exists only in the anhydrous form. Its solubility in water is low relative to other lithium salts. The isolation of lithium from aqueous extracts of lithium ores capitalizes ... | central nervous system and renal system and can be lethal. Red pyrotechnic colorant Lithium carbonate is used to impart a red color to fireworks. Properties and reactions Unlike sodium carbonate, which forms at least three hydrates, lithium carbonate exists only in the anhydrous form. Its solubility in water is low rel... |
International to make a preliminary study of the shelter and its related vehicle. Because of the potential need for an enclosed vehicle for enlarged future lunar explorations, those design efforts continued for some time, and resulted in several full-scale test vehicles. With pressure from Congress to hold down Apollo ... | assumption, allowing a large, heavy, roving vehicle. Grumman and Northrop, in the fall of 1962, began to design pressurized-cabin vehicles, with electric motors for each wheel. At about this same time Bendix and Boeing started their own internal studies on lunar transportation systems. Mieczysław Bekker, now with Gener... |
of the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System (formerly NAVSPASUR) sites is located at Lake Kickapoo (). It is the master transmitter and the most powerful continuous wave (CW) station in the | (). It is the master transmitter and the most powerful continuous wave (CW) station in the world, at 768 kW radiated power. External links Protected areas of Archer County, Texas Kickapoo 1947 establishments in Texas Protected areas established in 1947 Bodies of water of Archer |
the solid surface of the Earth that is not covered by water. Land, lands, The Land or the Lands may also refer to: Entertainment and media Film Land (1987 film), a British television film by Barry Collins Land (2018 film), an international drama by Babak Jalali Land (2021 film), a drama directed by and starring Robin W... | a Japanese rock band Other media Land (book), a 2021 non-fiction book by Simon Winchester Land (magazine), a Swedish weekly magazine The Land (weekly newspaper) Places Land Glacier, Antarctica Land, Norway The Lands, common name for Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, or APY Lands, in South Australia Division of a c... |
in 1821. The site was also used by German soldiers to store ammunition during the Second World War. Howarth's investigation was shown on a documentary produced for the National Geographic Channel. The Egyptian labyrinth More generally, labyrinth might be applied to any extremely complicated maze-like structure. In Book... | accessed by a narrow crack but expanding into interlinking caverns. Unlike the Skotino cave, these caverns have smooth walls and columns, and appear to have been at least partially man-made. This site corresponds to a labyrinth symbol on a 16th-century map of Crete in a book of maps in the library of Christ Church, Oxf... |
of the column, base, and feet, and a fleur de lis pattern at the bottom of the column. It is available in a gold version. It is tall, and weighs about . Lyon & Healy produces one of the most ornate and elaborate harps in the world, the Louis XV, which includes carvings of leaves, flowers, scrolls, and shells along its ... | In 1928, Lyon & Healy introduced one of the most unusual harps ever mass-produced, the Salzedo Model. The company designed it in collaboration with the harpist Carlos Salzedo. It an Art Deco style instrument that incorporates bold red and white lines on the soundboard to create a stylized and distinct appearance. In th... |
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the Chrysler Corporation in 1987. After replacing the Countach with the Diablo and discontinuing the Jalpa and the LM002, Chrysler sold Lamborghini to Malaysian investment group Mycom Setdco and Indonesian group V'Power Corporation in 1994. In 1998, Mycom Setdco and V'Power sold Lamborghini to the Volkswagen Group wher... | bodywork was plastic and fully integrated with front fairing merged into fuel tank and seat cover ending in a rear tail-fairing. The motorcycles were designed by Lamborghini stylists and produced by French business Boxer Bikes. Branded merchandise Lamborghini licenses its brand to manufacturers that produce a variety o... |
3, 1999, by lethal gas, and currently remains the last person executed by that method in the United States. The case Germany initiated legal action in the International Court of Justice against the United States regarding Walter LaGrand. Hours before Walter LaGrand was due to be executed, Germany applied for the Court ... | the German submissions, the United States argued that the Vienna Convention did not grant rights to individuals, only to states; that the convention was meant to be exercised subject to the laws of each state party, which in the case of the United States meant subject to the doctrine of procedural default; and that Ger... |
compatible with 1-2-3. An Apple II software company promised that its spreadsheet had "the power of 1-2-3". Because spreadsheets use large amounts of memory, 1‐2‐3 helped popularize greater RAM capacities in PCs, and especially the advent of expanded memory, which allowed greater than 640k to be accessed. Rivals Lotus ... | and a minor inconvenience for home users, but proved a serious nuisance in an office setting. Starting with Release 3.0, Lotus no longer used copy protection. However, it was then necessary to "initialize" the System disk with one's name and company name so as to customize the copy of the program. Release 2.2 and highe... |
office space located at the Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas; President Johnson's college alma mater. Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center, a hospital in American Samoa Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, part of Harris Health System in Houston, Texas Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas Lyn... | of memorials to Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. Buildings Lyndon B. Johnson Student Center, a complex including teaching theaters, shops, a student pool hall, and office space located at the Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas; President Johnson's college alma mater. Lyndon B. Johnso... |
Johannes Blaskowitz reached an agreement on the capitulation of all German forces in the Netherlands. The capitulation document was signed the next day (no typewriter had been available the prior day) in the auditorium of Wageningen University, located next door. After liberation in 1945, Liberation Day was celebrated ... | in 1945, Liberation Day was celebrated every five years. In 1990 the day was declared a national holiday when liberation would be remembered and celebrated every year. Festivals are held in most places in the Netherlands with parades of veterans and musical festivals throughout the whole country. See also Battle of the... |
such as from an unwanted blinking light on a consumer product, to a community level, as when a new urban development affects existing communities through its poorly planned street lighting. Light pollution can be understood not only as a phenomenon resulting from a specific source or kind of pollution, but also as a co... | outdoor area lighting (such as car parks), offices, factories, streetlights, and illuminated sporting venues. It is most severe in highly industrialized, densely populated areas of North America, Europe, and Asia and in major cities in the Middle East and North Africa like Tehran and Cairo, but even relatively small am... |
the corotating frame of reference). The points , , and are positions of unstable equilibrium. Any object orbiting at , , or will tend to fall out of orbit; it is therefore rare to find natural objects there, and spacecraft inhabiting these areas must employ station keeping in order to maintain their position. Natural o... | Earth–Moon system. When a body at these points is perturbed, it moves away from the point, but the factor opposite of that which is increased or decreased by the perturbation (either gravity or angular momentum-induced speed) will also increase or decrease, bending the object's path into a stable, kidney bean-shaped or... |
In addition, a letter written by Saint Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD tells the story of a dreamer, Doctor Gennadius, and refers to lucid dreaming. 17th century Philosopher and physician Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) was fascinated by dreams and described his own ability to lucid dream in his Religio Medici, stating: "..... | study was conducted by Stephen LaBerge and other scientists to see if it were possible to attain the ability to lucid dream through a drug. In 2018, galantamine was given to 121 patients in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, the only one of its kind. Some participants found as much as a 42 percent increase in th... |
subjective, personal point of view Lyric, from the Greek language, a song that is played with a lyre Lyric describes, in the classification of the human voice in European classical music, a specific vocal weight and a range at the upper end of the given voice part RTÉ lyric fm, a radio station in Ireland Lyric (group),... | given voice part RTÉ lyric fm, a radio station in Ireland Lyric (group), a rhythm and blues girl group "Lyric" (song), a single released in June 2003 by Zwan Lyric Hearing, an extended wear hearing aid The Lyric (magazine), a North American poetry magazine The Lyric (album), a 2005 jazz album by Jim Tomlinson and Stace... |
loss. Currently, in the area of phosphor LED development, much effort is being spent on optimizing these devices to higher light output and higher operation temperatures. For instance, the efficiency can be raised by adapting better package design or by using a more suitable type of phosphor. Conformal coating process ... | driven at currents from hundreds of mA to more than an ampere, compared with the tens of mA for other LEDs. Some can emit over a thousand lumens. LED power densities up to 300 W/cm2 have been achieved. Since overheating is destructive, the HP-LEDs must be mounted on a heat sink to allow for heat dissipation. If the hea... |
from French and Standard German, other diacritics are usually preserved: French: , , , etc. German: , (from German ), etc. In German loanwords, the digraphs and indicate the diphthong , which does not appear in native words. Orthography of vowels {| class="wikitable" |+ Monophthongs ! Spelling ! IPA ! Example |- | rows... | (lit. "everything what you always wanted know about Luxembourg") Vocabulary Luxembourgish has borrowed many French words. For example, the word for a bus driver is Buschauffeur (as in Dutch and Swiss German), which would be Busfahrer in German and chauffeur de bus in French. Some words are different from Standard Germa... |
in 1917. His next film was released under the Soviet patronage. During 1918–1920 he covered the Russian Civil War with a documentary crew. In 1919 he headed the first Soviet film courses at the National Film School. Kuleshov may well be the very first film theorist as he was a leader in the Soviet montage theory – deve... | was intimately involved in development of the style of film making known as Soviet montage, especially its psychological underpinning, including the use of editing and the cut to emotionally influence the audience, a principle known as the Kuleshov effect. He also developed the theory of creative geography, which is th... |
of service, and the cost of designing a new system with a similar availability level is high. Examples include systems to handle customers' accounts in banks, computer reservations systems, air traffic control, energy distribution (power grids), nuclear power plants, military defense installations, and systems such as ... | still possible to enhance (or "re-face") them. Most development often goes into adding new interfaces to a legacy system. The most prominent technique is to provide a Web-based interface to a terminal-based mainframe application. This may reduce staff productivity due to slower response times and slower mouse-based ope... |
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