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American actress (d. 2012) 1945 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009) 1946 – Michel Leclère, French race car driver 1947 – Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter 1947 – David Lloyd, English cricketer, journali... | de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021) 1937 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2016) 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975) 1938 – Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter 1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian ac... |
M3 halftracks. In the British and Commonwealth armies, "Type A armoured brigades," intended for independent operations or to form part of armored divisions, had a "motor infantry" battalion mounted in Bren Carriers or later in lend-lease halftracks. "Type B" brigades lacked a motor infantry component and were subordina... | end of World War I, all the armies involved were faced with the problem of maintaining the momentum of an attack. Tanks, artillery, or infiltration tactics could all be used to break through an enemy defense, but almost all offensives launched in 1918 ground to a halt after a few days. The following infantry quickly be... |
name. Micah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), and means "Who is like God?" The name is sometimes found with theophoric extensions. Suffix theophory in Yah and in Yahweh results in Michaiah or Michaihu (), meaning who is like Yahweh? Suffix theophory in El results in Michael (), meaning ... | Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), and means "Who is like God?" The name is sometimes found with theophoric extensions. Suffix theophory in Yah and in Yahweh results in Michaiah or Michaihu (), meaning who is like Yahweh? Suffix theophory in El results in Michael (), meaning "who is like god". In German and Dutch, Micah is ... |
both the Septuagint and the Vulgate, warrant the supposition that Malachi's full name ended with the syllable -yah. The Septuagint translates the last clause of Malachi 1:1, "by the hand of his messenger", and the Targum reads, "by the hand of my angel, whose name is called Ezra the scribe". Works The Jews of his day a... | Latin angelicus, signifying "one charged with a message or mission" (a missionary). The term would thus be an official title, and the thought would not be unsuitable to one whose message closed the prophetical canon of the Old Testament. Date Opinions vary as to the prophet's exact date, but nearly all scholars agree t... |
his secondary education. He graduated at University College London in 1986. In 1994 he moved to the United States, where he lives near Boston, Massachusetts in the suburb of Melrose. Fowler started working with software in the early 1980s. Out of university in 1986 he started working in software development for Coopers... | with software in the early 1980s. Out of university in 1986 he started working in software development for Coopers & Lybrand until 1991. In 2000 he joined ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company, where he serves as Chief Scientist. Fowler has written nine books on the topic of software development (s... |
and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art. Microsoft Word added support for the common SVG vector image format in 2017 for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was also included in the Office 2019 release. WordArt WordArt enables drawing text in a Microsoft Word document such a... | was a very popular word processor owing to its elegance, relative ease of use and feature set. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created. In 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST under the name Microsoft Write. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1.0... |
as the primary means of purchasing Microsoft Office. Although there are still "on-premises" releases roughly every three years, Microsoft marketing emphasizes that they do not receive new features or access to new cloud-based services as they are released unlike Office 365, as well as other benefits for consumer and bu... | and replaced by Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Expression Web. InfoPath was a Windows application for designing and distributing rich XML-based forms. The last version was included in Office 2013. InterConnect was a business-relationship database available only in Japan. Internet Explorer was a graphical w... |
because of the similarity with the Wang. MultiMate was not marketed heavily to end-users, but was quickly popular with insurance companies, law firms, other business computer users and US government agencies and the military. While the Wang WP keyboard was different from the original PC keyboard, MultiMate compensated ... | revenue grew 25-fold after good reviews appeared in magazines. The company's fiscal 1984 sales were $15 million or more, and by early 1985 MultiMate's installed base in companies was as large as former market leader WordStar's. Jones sold the company to Ashton-Tate in December 1985 for about $20 million. an Ashton-Tate... |
appointed people he knew to top positions within the KHAD. In June 1981, Najibullah, along with Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, a former tank commander and the then Minister of Communications and Major General Mohammad Rafi, the Minister of Defence were appointed to the PDPA Politburo. Under Najibullah, KHAD's personnel incre... | know how to do. They've tied Najibullah hand and foot." Fikryat Tabeev, the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, was accused of acting like a governor general by Gorbachev. Tabeev was recalled from Afghanistan in July 1986, but while Gorbachev called for the end of Soviet management of Afghanistan, he could not help but t... |
Thomson computers in 1986 and same year on Japan for MSX compatible computers with name MSX-Plan. Despite the release of Microsoft Chart, a graphics companion program, Multiplan continued to be outsold by Lotus 1-2-3. Multiplan was replaced by Microsoft Excel, which followed some years later on both the Apple Macintosh... | an early spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft. Known initially by the code name "EP" (for "Electronic Paper"), it was introduced in 1982 as a competitor to VisiCalc. Multiplan was released first for computers running CP/M; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability s... |
following architectural changes in the Motorola CPU… The main change in terms of chip size was the elimination of the tri-state drivers from the address bus outputs. This had been included in the 6800 to allow it to work with other chips in direct memory access (DMA) and co-processing roles, at the cost of significant ... | had been targeted. The related Rockwell AIM 65 control/training/development system also did well. The software in the AIM 65 was based on that in the MDT. Another roughly similar product was the Synertek SYM-1. One of the first "public" uses for the design was the Apple I microcomputer, introduced in 1976. The 6502 was... |
remain 16-bit. The 6507 omits both interrupt pins in order to include address line A12, providing 8 KB of external addressability but no interrupt capability. The 6507 was used in the popular Atari 2600 video game console, the design of which divides the 8 KB memory space in half, allocating the lower half to the conso... | the external addressability to 4 KB (from the 64 KB of the 6502), though the internal PC register and all effective address calculations remain 16-bit. The 6507 omits both interrupt pins in order to include address line A12, providing 8 KB of external addressability but no interrupt capability. The 6507 was used in the... |
C64, the extra I/O pins of the processor were used to control the computer's memory map by bank switching, and for controlling three of the four signal lines of the Datasette tape recorder (the electric motor control, key-press sensing and write data lines; the read data line went to another I/O chip). It was possible,... | chip). It was possible, by writing the correct bit pattern to the processor at address $01, to completely expose almost the full 64 KB of RAM in the C64, leaving no ROM or I/O hardware exposed except for the processor I/O port itself and its data directional register. Variants MOS 8500 In 1985, MOS produced the 8500, a... |
the MC6870 two-phase clock IC, and the Memory Products group provided a full line of ROMs and RAMs. The CMOS group's MC14411 Bit Rate Generator provided a 75 to 9600 baud clock for the MC6850 serial interface. The buffers for address and data buses were standard Motorola products. Motorola could supply every IC, transi... | during each step. The larger the chip the more likely it would encounter a defect. The percentage of working chips, or yield, declined steeply for chips larger than 160 mils (4 mm) on a side. The target size for the 6800 was 180 mils (4.6 mm) on each side but the final size was 212 mils (5.4 mm) with an area of 29.0 mm... |
the same model, and for all FPUs to be the same model as well. Instruction set The new instructions include some minor improvements and extensions to the supervisor state, several instructions for software management of a multiprocessing system (which were removed in the 68060), some support for high-level languages wh... | word (16-bit) and long word (32-bit) data in memory if it were word-aligned (located at an even address). The 68020 has no alignment restrictions on data access. Naturally, unaligned accesses are slower than aligned accesses because they required an extra memory access. The 68020 has a small 256-byte direct-mapped inst... |
performed by Hunt. The remainder of Hunt's characters were left without a stable performer until David Rudman was cast in those roles in the late 2000s. Oz continued performing until his retirement from puppeteering in 2000; Eric Jacobson was cast as his characters beginning in 2002. At Nelson's behest, Matt Vogel grad... | sold to EM.TV & Merchandising AG for $680M. However, EM.TV's stock collapsed and the Henson family re-acquired the company in 2003, with the exception of the Sesame Street characters, which were in the interim sold to Sesame Workshop. 2000s: Disney acquisition Fourteen years after initial negotiations began, Disney acq... |
The same concept expressed with a denominator of 100 is the mole percent, molar percentage or molar proportion (mol%). The mole fraction is also called the amount fraction. It is identical to the number fraction, which is defined as the number of molecules of a constituent Ni divided by the total number of all molecule... | volume fraction (percentage by volume, vol%) are others. Properties Mole fraction is used very frequently in the construction of phase diagrams. It has a number of advantages: it is not temperature dependent (such as molar concentration) and does not require knowledge of the densities of the phase(s) involved a mixture... |
and the right to vote in the 1910s. Mary Cassatt depicted the "New Woman" of the 19th century from the woman's perspective. As a successful, highly trained woman artist who never married, Cassatt—like Ellen Day Hale, Elizabeth Coffin, Elizabeth Nourse and Cecilia Beaux—personified the "New Woman". She "initiated the pr... | yet attend the École des Beaux-Arts, Cassatt applied to study privately with masters from the school and was accepted to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme, a highly regarded teacher known for his hyper-realistic technique and his depiction of exotic subjects. (A few months later Gérôme also accepted Eakins as a student.) Cas... |
of Buenos Aires) Argentine Navy: Escuela Naval Militar (Naval Military School), in Río Santiago, Buenos Aires (in Ensenada, near La Plata) Argentine Air Force: Escuela de Aviación Militar (Military Aviation School), in the city of Córdoba Armenia National Defense Research University Vazgen Sargsyan Military Institute A... | Higher All-Arms Command School) Talgat Bigeldinov Military Institute of the Air Defence Forces Military Engineering Institute of Radio Electronics and Communications Kyrgyzstan Military Institute of the Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz Republic Center for Advanced Training of Officers Malaysia Secondary level institutions: R... |
who was an avid moviegoer; memorable films for Miyazaki include Meshi (1951) and Tasogare Sakaba (1955). After graduating from Junior High, attended High School. During his third and final year, 's interest in animation was sparked by Panda and the Magic Serpent (1958), Japan's first feature-length animated film in col... | the first fifteen episodes. He moved to Telecom Animation Film, a subsidiary of TMS Entertainment, to direct his first feature anime film, The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), a Lupin III film. In his role at Telecom, helped train the second wave of employees. directed six episodes of Sherlock Hound in 1981, until issues w... |
40th Premier of Tasmania 1939 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (d. 1995) 1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d. 2010) 1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef 1940 – Tom Butler, English bishop 1940 – Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990) 1940 – Graham McRae, New Zealand race car drive... | Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager 1958 – Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988) 1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999) 1960 – Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, Eng... |
– President-elect of the United States Zachary Taylor and Vice President-elect Millard Fillmore did not take their respective oaths of office (they did so the following day), leading to the erroneous theory that outgoing President pro tempore of the United States Senate David Rice Atchison had assumed the role of actin... | Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1971) 1883 – Robert Emmett Keane, American actor (d. 1981) 1883 – Sam Langford, Canadian-American boxer (d. 1956) 1884 – Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958) 1884 – Lee Shumway, American actor (d. 1959) 1886 – Paul Bazelaire, French cellist and composer (d. 1... |
failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya. 2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq. 2016 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at... | and composer (d. 2011) 1970 – Michael Krumm, German race car driver 1973 – Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach 1975 – Antonio Daniels, American basketball player 1976 – Andre Miller, American basketball player 1976 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager 1978 – Cydonie Mothersille, Jamaican-Caymanian s... |
balance the supposed yin and yang elements of food and cookware. Major principles of macrobiotic diets are to reduce animal products, eat locally grown foods that are in season, and consume meals in moderation. There is no high-quality clinical evidence that a macrobiotic diet is helpful for people with cancer or other... | and whole-grain products such as brown rice and buckwheat pasta (soba), a variety of cooked and raw vegetables, beans and bean products, mild natural seasonings, fish, nuts and seeds, mild (non-stimulating) beverages such as bancha twig tea, and fruit are recommended. Some macrobiotic proponents stress that yin and yan... |
merger with Google Inc”. On May 22, 2012, Google announced that the acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. had closed, with Google acquiring MMI for $40.00 per share in cash. ($12.5 billion) On October 30, 2014, Google sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo. The purchase price was approximately US$2.91 billion (... | In 1991, Motorola demonstrated the world's first working-prototype digital cellular system and phones using GSM standard in Hanover, Germany. Later that same year, Motorola along with Apple and IBM formed the AIM alliance which help created the PowerPC CPUs. In 1994, Motorola introduced the world's first commercial dig... |
the fourth generation (ND) in 2015 for MY 2016 (along with "ND2" being the designation for MY 2019). As the best-selling two-seat convertible sports car in history, the MX-5 has been marketed globally, with production exceeding one million, as of early 2016. The name derives from Old High German for "reward". Generatio... | In an effort to keep the weight down, base model cars went without power steering and power brakes. A five-speed manual transmission was standard, though a four-speed automatic was available. The NA MX-5 is also noteworthy for its special editions, including the 1991 BRG model with its British Racing Green exterior pai... |
of $85 million (equivalent to $ in ) in bonds for bridge construction on April 30, 1952. However, a weak bond market in 1953 forced a delay of more than a year before the bonds could be issued. Engineering and construction David B. Steinman was appointed as the design engineer in January 1953 and by the end of 1953, es... | per day) Speed limit: for passenger cars, for heavy trucks. Heavy trucks are also required to leave a spacing ahead. Work and major accident fatalities Five workers died during the construction of the bridge: Diver Frank Pepper ascended too quickly from a depth of on September 16, 1954. Despite being rushed to a decomp... |
oh-three-oh or oh-thirty). The 68030 is essentially a 68020 with a memory management unit (MMU) and instruction and data caches of 256 bytes each. It added a burst mode for the caches, where four longwords can be loaded into the cache in a single operation. The MMU was mostly compatible with the external 68851 that wou... | of personal computers, NeXT Cube, later Alpha Microsystems multiuser systems, and some descendants of the Atari ST line such as the Atari TT and the Atari Falcon. It was also used in Unix workstations such as the Sun Microsystems Sun-3x line of desktop workstations (the earlier "sun3" used a 68020), laser printers and ... |
68020.) The FPU in the 68040 was thus made incapable of IEEE transcendental functions, which had been supported by both the 68881 and 68882 and were used by the popular fractal generating software of the time and little else. The Motorola floating point support package (FPSP) emulated these instructions in software und... | processor was clocked at 40 MHz and it was used only in the Quadra 840AV. The more expensive models in the (short-lived) Macintosh Centris line also used the 68040, while the cheaper Quadra, Centris and Macintosh Performa used the 68LC040. The 68040 was also used in other personal computers, such as the Amiga 4000 and ... |
produced by Motorola. For example, the Motorola 68010 (and the obscure 68012) is a 68000 with improvements to the loop instruction and the ability to suspend then continue an instruction in the event of a page fault, enabling the use of virtual memory with the appropriate MMU hardware. There were, however, no major ove... | to 120 or 133 MHz. Developments of the basic core continue, intended for embedded systems. Here they are combined with a number of peripheral interfaces to reduce the overall complexity and power requirements of a design. A number of chips, each with different sets of interfaces, are sold under the names ColdFire and D... |
the TRS-80 Color Computer, Dragon 32/64, SuperPET, and Thomson MO/TO home computers, the Vectrex game console, and early 1980s arcade machines including Star Wars, Defender, Robotron: 2084, Joust, and Gyruss. Series II of the Fairlight CMI digital audio workstation and Konami's Time Pilot '84 arcade game each use dual ... | Tandy then re-worked the design to produce a home computer, which became one of the 6809's most notable design wins. Looking for a low-cost programming platform for computer science students, the University of Waterloo developed a system that combined a 6809-based computer-on-a-card with an existing Commodore PET, incl... |
with several UARTs, RAM, and an EPROM. The cost of the evaluation kit was $68.11. The standard monitor for the HC11 family is called BUFFALO, "Bit User Fast Friendly Aid to Logical Operation." It can be stored in on-chip ROM, EPROM, or external memory (also typically EPROM). BUFFALO is available for most 68HC11 family ... | C, D, and E, but some have as few as 3 ports (version D3). Each port is eight-bits wide except for D, which is six bits (in some variations of the chip, D also has eight bits). It can be operated with an internal program and RAM (1 to 768 bytes) or an external memory of up to 64 kilobytes. With external memory, B and C... |
Elector of Saxony (d. 1553) 1527 – Hermann Finck, German composer and educator (d. 1558) 1555 – John Leveson, English politician (d. 1615) 1557 – Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel, English countess and poet (d. 1630) 1601–1900 1626 – Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, Spanish saint and missionary (d. 1667) 1672 – Stefano B... | – Hideki Ishima, Japanese guitarist 1944 – Mike Jackson, English general 1944 – David Lindley, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1944 – Gaye Adegbalola, African-American singer and guitarist 1945 – Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, English lawyer 1945 – Charles Greene, American sprinter and coach 1945 – Rose... |
two fictional Marvel Comics characters: Mainframe (comics), from the series A-Next Mainframe, a character from the Guardians of the Galaxy series Mainframe (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe A character from the game Gunman Chronicles Mainframe, the city | may also refer to: Mainframe Entertainment, a former Canadian computer animation company now known as Rainmaker Entertainment Either of two fictional Marvel Comics characters: Mainframe (comics), from the series A-Next Mainframe, a character from the Guardians of the Galaxy series Mainframe (G.I. Joe), a character in t... |
by raising them on its shields continuing an ancient practice that made the king leader of the warrior-band. Furthermore, the king was expected to support himself with the products of his private domain (royal demesne), which was called the fisc. This system developed in time into feudalism, and expectations of royal s... | king redistributed conquered wealth among his followers, both material wealth and the land including its indentured peasantry, though these powers were not absolute. As Rouche points out, "When he died his property was divided equally among his heirs as though it were private property: the kingdom was a form of patrimo... |
branch. Cúchulainn now knows who she is, and tells her that had he known before, they would not have parted in enmity. She notes that whatever he had done would have brought him ill luck. To his response that she cannot harm him, she delivers a series of warnings, foretelling a coming battle in which he will be killed.... | as an old woman bearing the same three wounds that her animal forms had sustained, milking a cow. She gives Cúchulainn three drinks of milk. He blesses her with each drink, and her wounds are healed. He regrets blessing her for the three drinks of milk, which is apparent in the exchange between the Morrígan and Cúchula... |
Lakes passenger steamships filled the city's hotels and resorts. South of the city, K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base was an important Air Force installation during the Cold War, host to B-52H bombers and KC-135 tankers of the Strategic Air Command, as well as a fighter interceptor squadron. The base closed in September 1995... | of the heat stored by the lake, which moderates the climate. On average, there are 11.6 days annually where the minimum temperature reaches and 73 days with a maximum at or below freezing, including a majority of days during meteorological winter (December thru February). Being located in the snowbelt region, Marquette... |
Overloaded user-defined operators, not constrained to predefined identifiers as in C++ Automatic building and dereferencing of pointers from type context Scalar range types Array and set enumeration in loop iterators Dynamic array descriptors (ROW) A book describing Mary was printed in 1974 (Fourth and last edition in ... | language designed and implemented by RUNIT at Trondheim, Norway in the 1970s. It borrowed many features from ALGOL 68 but was designed for systems programming (machine-oriented programming). An unusual feature of its syntax was that expressions were constructed using the conventional infix operators, but all of them ha... |
cross-country. Hiking may be a strenuous activity, and adequate physical fitness and familiarity with the wilderness is necessary to complete a hike; it is also a prerequisite of success in all aspects of mountaineering. Rock Alpine rock climbing involves technical skills including the ability to place anchors into the... | location and become famous. The Everest base camps and Camp Muir are among the most famous base camps. Hut Camping is not always an option, or may not be suitable if a mountain is close to civilization. Some regions may legally prohibit primitive camping due to concern for the environment, or due to issues with crowds.... |
institutions of the democracy included a popular Assembly and Council, and a board of five (or six) generals. Geography Megara is located in the westernmost part of Attica, near the Megara Gulf, a bay of the Saronic Gulf. The coastal plain around Megara is referred to as Megaris, which is also the name of the ancient c... | the region of Caria in Asia Minor. According to some scholars, they had built up a "colonisation alliance". In the 7th/6th century BCE these two cities acted in concordance with each other. Both cities acted under the leadership and sanction of an Apollo oracle. Megara cooperated with that of Delphi. Miletos had her ow... |
prisoners that when authorities, even emperors, heard he was coming, they refused to see him because they knew he would request mercy for someone and they would be unable to refuse. On behalf of the Priscillianists The churches of other parts of Gaul and in Spain were being disturbed by the Priscillianists, an ascetic ... | major stopping-point on pilgrimages. In 1453 the remains of Saint Martin were transferred to a magnificent new reliquary donated by Charles VII of France and Agnes Sorel. During the French Wars of Religion, the basilica was sacked by the Protestant Huguenots in 1562. It was disestablished during the French Revolution. ... |
century, based upon insight gleaned from the gene-centered view of evolution, biologists George C. Williams, Richard Dawkins, and David Haig, among others, concluded that if there is a primary function to life, it is the replication of DNA and the survival of one's genes. Responding to an interview question from Richar... | significance of living or existence in general. Many other related questions include: "Why are we here?", "What is life all about?", or "What is the purpose of existence?" There have been many proposed answers to these questions from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The search for life's meaning has... |
Wine region Margaret River is the foremost Geographical Indication wine region in the South West Australia Zone, with nearly under vine and over 138 wineries as at 2008. The region is made up predominantly of boutique-size wine producers, although winery operations range from the smallest, crushing per year, to the lar... | with nearly under vine and over 138 wineries as at 2008. The region is made up predominantly of boutique-size wine producers, although winery operations range from the smallest, crushing per year, to the largest at around . The region produces just three percent of total Australian grape production, but commands over 2... |
Bitche in Moselle in Lorraine, built in a military training area and so capable of live fire exercises. This was impossible elsewhere as the other parts of the line were located in civilian areas. Organisation Although the name "Maginot Line" suggests a rather thin linear fortification, it was quite deep, varying (from... | allow the French time to bring up reserves and counterattacks. The German Army, having reformulated their plans from a repeat of the First World War-era plan, became aware of and exploited this weak point in the French defensive front. A rapid advance through the forest and across the River Meuse encircled much of the ... |
of Metric Programs, to coordinate the voluntary conversion to the metric system. In January 2007 NASA decided to use metric units for all future moon missions, in line with the practice of other space agencies. Other English-speaking countries The British metrication programme signalled the start of metrication program... | cheng, between 500 millilitres and 8 litres; and 36 different tsin ranging from 300 grams to 2,500 grams. Revolutionary France was to produce what evolved into the definitive International System of Units, which has come to be used by most of the world today. The desire for a single international system of measurement ... |
the time interval between two consecutive occurrences of a particular phase (such as new moon or full moon) as seen by an observer on Earth. The mean length of the synodic month is 29.53059 days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 2.8 seconds). Due to the eccentricity of the lunar orbit around Earth (and to a lesser degree... | counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age. Synodic months, based on the Moon's orbital period with respect to the Earth–Sun line, are still the basis of many calendars today, and are used to divide the year. Types of months in astronomy The following types of months are mainly of sig... |
Cap Sainte-Marie, the southern extremity of Madagascar to Ponto do Ouro on the mainland (). On the West. The coast of Southern Africa. Islands in the channel Comoros Grande Comore Mohéli Anjouan France Region of France: Mayotte (claimed by Comoros) Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, district of French Southern and ... | party was despatched from the Graf Spee and subsequently boarded the tanker, the officer in charge addressing Captain Dove in perfect English with the sentence: "Good morning, captain. Sorry; fortunes of war." In time the boarding party ordered the ship's company, save the Africa Shell's Master, into their lifeboats be... |
and recommend appropriate psychoactive medicines. Medical psychologists are prepared to do the psychopharmacology consulting or prescribing, but also must have training which prepares them for functioning with behavioral and lifestyle components of physical disease and functioning in or in consultation with multidiscip... | the Academy of Medical Psychology defines medical psychology as a "specialty," has established a "specialty board certification," and is recognized by the national psychology practitioner association (www.nappp.org), there is a split between NAPPP and the American Psychological Association in that they do not currently... |
piano and acoustic guitar. Since the widespread availability of high speed. low latency Internet, private lessons can also take place through live video chat using webcams, microphones and videotelephony online. Music lessons are part of both amateur music instruction and professional training. In amateur and recreatio... | to learn advanced playing or singing techniques. Many instrumental performers and singers, including a number of pop music celebrities, have learned music "by ear", especially in folk music styles such as blues and popular styles such as rock music. Nevertheless, even in folk and popular styles, a number of performers ... |
of mutagen. Types Mutagens may be of physical, chemical or biological origin. They may act directly on the DNA, causing direct damage to the DNA, and most often result in replication error. Some however may act on the replication mechanism and chromosomal partition. Many mutagens are not mutagenic by themselves, but ca... | and cause transition mutations.some examples are 5 bromo uracil and 2 amino purine Intercalating agents Intercalating agents, such as ethidium bromide and proflavine, are molecules that may insert between bases in DNA, causing frameshift mutation during replication. Some such as daunorubicin may block transcription and... |
"considered an American Pietà." Judge's body was placed before the altar of St. Peter's Catholic Church before being taken to the medical examiner. Judge was designated as "Victim 0001" and thereby recognized as the first official victim of the attacks. Although others had been killed before him, including the crews, p... | charity and his deep spirituality. While praying, he would sometimes "become so lost in God, as if lost in a trance, that he'd be shocked to find several hours had passed." Judge's spiritual director, the late Jesuit John J. McNeill, observed that Judge achieved an "extraordinary degree of union with the divine. We kne... |
to have stolen a diamond from King Charles I and hidden it. His ghost is said to wander at night looking for it and the mysterious lights in the churchyard are attributed to his activities. As the main part of the story opens, Block's youthful son, David, has just been killed by Maskew during a raid by the Maskew and o... | of the story opens, Block's youthful son, David, has just been killed by Maskew during a raid by the Maskew and other authorities on a smuggling boat. One night a bad storm hits the village and there is a flood. While attending the Sunday service at church, John hears strange sounds from the crypt below. He thinks it i... |
the single list contains all elements. The single list is the sorted list. The merge algorithm is used repeatedly in the merge sort algorithm. An example merge sort is given in the illustration. It starts with an unsorted array of 7 integers. The array is divided into 7 partitions; each partition contains 1 element and... | to do a loop over the lists to pick off the minimum element each time, and repeat this loop until all lists are empty: Input: a list of lists. While any of the lists is non-empty: Loop over the lists to find the one with the minimum first element. Output the minimum element and remove it from its list. In the worst cas... |
a country in Africa Marxism–Leninism, a form of communist ideology as practiced in the Soviet Union and other nations Marxist–Leninist, a follower of Marxism–Leninism McConnell Unit, a prison near Beeville, Texas Mere Liye (also known as ML), a 2001 album by Sagarika. Motor Launch, a type of small Royal Navy vessel use... | ML=monolayer=1 Langmuir) Other 1050, in Roman numerals ML (film), a 2018 Philippine film ML 8-inch shell gun ML postcode area, Motherwell postcode area of Scotland Dean ML, a model of electric guitar Malayalam (ISO 639-1 code), a language Mali (ISO 3166-1 country code), a country in Africa Marxism–Leninism, a form of c... |
City Kansas City is an important barbecue and meat-processing center with a distinctive barbecue style. The Kansas City metropolitan area has more than 100 barbecue restaurants and proclaims itself to be the "world's barbecue capital." The Kansas City Barbeque Society spreads its influence across the nation through its... | dish City Chicken and the Polish Boy (a loaded sausage sandwich native to Cleveland), are dishes definitive of a cuisine that is based on hearty, inexpensive fare. Commercially, Hector Boiardi (aka Chef Boyardee) started his business in Cleveland's Little Italy. Sweets specific to the Cleveland area include the coconut... |
19th century German philosopher and communist. Was known as “The Moor” by family and friends because of his darker complexion. Davey Ray Moor, Australian songwriter, singer, composer and producer David Moor (1947–2000), British general practitioner who was prosecuted for the euthanasia of a patient David Moor (crickete... | Moor (born 1952), American tennis player William Moor (died 1765), Canadian sailor and explorer Wyman Moor (1811–1869), American politician Places Moor, Nevada, United States Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary Moor Crichel, a village in southwest England Moor Island, uninhabited Canadian ... |
is called open mitosis, and it occurs in some multicellular organisms. Fungi and some protists, such as algae or trichomonads, undergo a variation called closed mitosis where the spindle forms inside the nucleus, or the microtubules penetrate the intact nuclear envelope. In late prometaphase, kinetochore microtubules b... | some alternative names for the process, e.g., "karyokinesis" (nuclear division), a term introduced by Schleicher in 1878, or "equational division", proposed by August Weismann in 1887.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Battaglia E | date = 1987 | title = Embryological questions: 12. Have the Polygonum and Allium types be... |
the coenzyme NADPH and produces pentose sugars such as ribose, the sugar component of nucleic acids. Fats are catabolized by hydrolysis to free fatty acids and glycerol. The glycerol enters glycolysis and the fatty acids are broken down by beta oxidation to release acetyl-CoA, which then is fed into the citric acid cyc... | In ecology, these reactions are particularly important in microbial biodegradation of pollutants and the bioremediation of contaminated land and oil spills. Many of these microbial reactions are shared with multicellular organisms, but due to the incredible diversity of types of microbes these organisms are able to dea... |
XXII was the victim of an assassination attempt via poisoning and sorcery. In a letter written in 1320 to the Inquisitors of Carcassonne and Toulouse, Cardinal William of Santa Sabina states that Pope John declared witchcraft to be heresy, and thus it could be tried under the Inquisition. Joan of Arc In the spring of 1... | accusations based on first-hand knowledge, judges now took on the prosecutorial role based on information collected. Under inquisitorial procedures, guilt or innocence was proved by the inquiry (inquisitio) of the judge into the details of a case. Episcopal inquisitions The common people tended to view heretics "...as ... |
and rigidity to their cells. They reproduce by binary fission or sometimes by budding, but do not undergo meiotic sexual reproduction. However, many bacterial species can transfer DNA between individual cells by a horizontal gene transfer process referred to as natural transformation. Some species form extraordinarily ... | own design. Robert Hooke, a contemporary of Leeuwenhoek, also used microscopy to observe microbial life in the form of the fruiting bodies of moulds. In his 1665 book Micrographia, he made drawings of studies, and he coined the term cell. 19th century Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) exposed boiled broths to the air, in vesse... |
of elastic stiffness Young's modulus, a specific elastic modulus Modulo operation (a % b, mod(a, b), etc.), in both math and programming languages; results in remainder of a division Casting modulus used in Chvorinov's rule. Mathematics Modulus (modular arithmetic), base of modular arithmetic Modulus, the absolute valu... | mathematics a geometric space whose points represent algebro-geometric objects Conformal modulus, a measure of the size of a curve family Modulus of continuity, a function gauging the uniform continuity of a function Similarly, the modulus of a Dirichlet character Modulus (algebraic number theory), a formal product of ... |
villages, mostly in the northern regions, to "declare independence", generally as a move to raise awareness of their unique culture and crafts for urban Japanese who saw village life as backwards and uncultured. These micronations even held "international summits" from 1983 to 1985, and some of them formed confederatio... | South Wales north coast in 1978. In Victoria, a long-running dispute over flood damage to farm properties led to the creation of the Independent State of Rainbow Creek in 1979. John Charlton Rudge founded the Grand Duchy of Avram in western Tasmania in the 1980s; "His Grace the Duke of Avram" was later elected to the T... |
for grain threshing. Much of the knowledge of medieval mining techniques comes from books such as Biringuccio’s De la pirotechnia and probably most importantly from Georg Agricola's De re metallica (1556). These books detail many different mining methods used in German and Saxon mines. A prime issue in medieval mines, ... | governance New regulations and a process of legislative reforms aim to improve the harmonization and stability of the mining sector in mineral-rich countries. New legislation for mining industry in African countries still appears to be an issue, but has the potential to be solved, when a consensus is reached on the bes... |
Taungdan, Hman-kin Taungdan and Gangaw Taungdan as well as the Bago Yoma (Pegu Range), a relatively low mountain chain between the Irrawaddy and the Sittaung River in central Myanmar. The Central Valley Region is limited by steep, rugged highlands in the North, where ranges at the southern end of the Hengduan System fo... | central range of the Malay Peninsula. Main peaks Hkakabo Razi, 5,881 m Gamlang Razi, 5,870 m Madwe Razi, 4,623 m Saramati, 3,826 m Hkaru Bum, 3,677 m Bumhpa Bum, 3,411 m Hkangri Bum, 3,388 m Shan-ngaw Bum (Shan-ngaw Range), 3,328 m Langhtam Razi, 3,221 m Nin-gun Bum, 3,162 m Mol Len, 3,088 m Abawm Bum, 3,082 m Sahton B... |
for women). The second is the social acceptability of celibacy among the Burmese, who are predominantly Buddhist and value celibacy as a means of spiritual development. Births and deaths Births and deaths Fertility and births Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR): Crude Birth Rat... | the population (01.10.2012) (Estimates) : Structure of the population (2014) (Census) Population - 51 486 253, enumerated - 50 279 900 : Life expectancy Source: UN World Population Prospects Ethnic groups Government classifications The Burmese government identifies eight major national ethnic races (which comprise 135 ... |
for the resolution, 25 against and 45 abstentions. Other nations, such as China and Russia, have been less critical of the regime and prefer to co-operate on economic matters. Facing increasing international isolation, Burma's military government agreed to embark upon a programme of reform, including permitting multipl... | member of the Commonwealth. A bicameral parliament was formed, consisting of a Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Nationalities. The geographical area Burma encompasses today can be traced to the Panglong Agreement, which combined Burma proper, which consisted of Lower Burma and Upper Burma, and the Frontier Areas, w... |
wrote off US$3 Billion, nations in the group of Paris Club wrote off US$2.2 Billion and Norway wrote off US$534 Million. Myanmar's inward foreign direct investment has steadily increased since its reform. The country approved US$4.4 billion worth of investment projects between January and November 2014. According to on... | largest exporter of rice, mainly to European markets, while other colonies like India suffered mass starvation. The British followed the ideologies of Social Darwinism and free market, and opened up the country to a large-scale immigration with Rangoon exceeding New York City as the greatest immigration port in the wor... |
about Myanmar to around the World. Myawady TV army-run network Broadcasts 7 Free Digital Channel available in Naypyidaw, Yangon & Mandalay. SKYNET Largest Pay TV Service In Myanmar. Providing 110 TV Channels (Local & International) Including 10 High Definition Channel. Broadcasts With DTH system on Apstar 7 Satellite. ... | operators to build and operate a nationwide wireless network for 15 years. Ooredoo began selling low-price SIM cards at a price of US$1.5 in Yangon, Mandalay, and Naypyidaw in August 2014. Prior to 2012, during military rule, SIM cards cost USD 1,500. Mytel is the fourth telecom firm in Myanmar. It is a joint venture b... |
the country, which features double carriageway and four lanes on its entire length: Yangon-Mandalay Expressway – Runs from Yangon to Mandalay, by-passing Bago, Taungoo, Naypyidaw and Meiktila. Length:365 miles (587 km). The other highways are as follows: Wonnral Road – Runs from Naungte to Retphaw, by- passing Hlagazai... | border with China, passing through Lashio. 4 – Runs from Meiktila to Tachileik, on the border with Thailand, passing through Taunggyi and Kengtung. 5 – Runs from Taungoo to Hopong, passing through Loikaw. 6 – Runs from Yangon to Pathein. 7 – Runs from Mandalay to Moreh, on the border with India, passing through Shwebo ... |
small standing army of a few thousand, which defended the capital and the palace, and a much larger conscription-based wartime army. Conscription was based on the ahmudan system, which required local chiefs to supply their predetermined quota of men from their jurisdiction on the basis of population in times of war. Th... | through 2 conglomerates, the Myanma Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) and the Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC). Revenues generated from these business interests have strengthened the Burmese military's autonomy from civilian oversight, and has contributed to the military's financial operations in "a wide array of inte... |
by the Government of the United States of being party to human rights violations and acts of public corruption, as well as against those who provide material and financial support to the military junta. In addition, since May 1997, the US Government prohibited new investment by American people and other entities. A num... | of bilateral agreements in various fields have been concluded and are in force between both countries. United States The political relations between the United States of America and Myanmar began to face major problems following the 1988 military coup and the junta's outbursts of repression against pro-democracy activi... |
by allegations that several teams, but most particularly Schumacher's Benetton team, broke the sport's technical regulations. Schumacher won six of the first seven races and was leading the , before a gearbox failure left him stuck in fifth gear for most of the race. Schumacher still finished the race in second place. ... | on a slow lap resulting in lost time for Schumacher. As retaliation for being in his way, Schumacher swerved his Sauber into Warwick's car, hitting the Jaguar's nose and front wheel. Enraged by Schumacher's attitude, Warwick drove to the pits and chased Schumacher on foot. He eventually caught up with Schumacher, and i... |
magnetic resonance technique analogous to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. Like ESR, μSR is useful for the analysis of chemical transformations and the structure of compounds with novel or potentially valuable electronic properties. Muonium is usually studied by muon spin ... | of hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium, and thus it can usefully be considered as an exotic light isotope of hydrogen. Although muonium is short-lived, physical chemists study it using muon spin spectroscopy (μSR), a magnetic resonance technique analogous to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or electron spin resonance (ESR... |
employ Native American ethnobotany, a practice that is very common in a large number of Native American and First Nations households. The terms medicine people or ceremonial people are sometimes used in Native American and First Nations communities, for example, when Arwen Nuttall (Cherokee) of the National Museum of t... | privileged, and it often remains in particular families." Native Americans tend to be quite reluctant to discuss issues about medicine or medicine people with non-Indians. In some cultures, the people will not even discuss these matters with Indians from other tribes. In most tribes, medicine elders are prohibited from... |
Brihadeeswarar Temple, recorded the word Malaiur, referring to a kingdom in the Malay Peninsula that had "a strong mountain for its rampart". Ptolemy's Geographia named a geographical region of the Golden Chersonese as Maleu-kolon, a term thought to derive from Sanskrit malayakolam or malaikurram. While the Chinese chr... | the region. The indigenous people of the peninsula are the Malays, an Austronesian people. The Titiwangsa Mountains are part of the Tenasserim Hills system, and form the backbone of the peninsula. They form the southernmost section of the central cordillera which runs from Tibet through the Kra Isthmus (the peninsula's... |
criticisms. Recording sessions with the nonet for Capitol continued until April 1950. The Nonet recorded a dozen tracks which were released as singles and subsequently compiled on the 1957 album Birth of the Cool. In May 1949, Davis performed with the Tadd Dameron Quintet with Kenny Clarke and James Moody at the Paris ... | journalists of his intention to retire soon and revealed offers he had received to teach at Harvard University and be a musical director at a record label. Avakian agreed that it was time for Davis to explore something different, but Davis rejected his suggestion of returning to his nonet as he considered that a step b... |
studying higher-dimensional theories combining general relativity with supersymmetry, the so-called supergravity theories. General relativity does not place any limits on the possible dimensions of spacetime. Although the theory is typically formulated in four dimensions, one can write down the same equations for the g... | 1970s, Claus Montonen and David Olive had conjectured a special property of certain physical theories. A sharpened version of their conjecture concerns a theory called supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory, which describes theoretical particles formally similar to the quarks and gluons that make up atomic nuclei. The streng... |
multicast service over a wider area requires multicast routing. Many networks, including the Internet, do not support multicast routing. Multicast routing functionality is available in enterprise-grade network equipment but is typically not available until configured by a network administrator. The Internet Group Manag... | The lesser-known PSYC technology uses custom multicast strategies per conference. Some peer-to-peer technologies employ the multicast concept known as peercasting when distributing content to multiple recipients. Explicit multi-unicast (Xcast) is another multicast strategy that includes addresses of all intended destin... |
decided to retain the chair that had been created for her late husband and offer it to Marie. She accepted it, hoping to create a world-class laboratory as a tribute to her husband Pierre. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Curie's quest to create a new laboratory did not end with... | Sciences failed, by one or two votes, to elect her to membership in the Academy. Elected instead was Édouard Branly, an inventor who had helped Guglielmo Marconi develop the wireless telegraph. It was only over half a century later, in 1962, that a doctoral student of Curie's, Marguerite Perey, became the first woman e... |
text files containing MATLAB code. Variables Variables are defined using the assignment operator, =. MATLAB is a weakly typed programming language because types are implicitly converted. It is an inferred typed language because variables can be assigned without declaring their type, except if they are to be treated as ... | language because variables can be assigned without declaring their type, except if they are to be treated as symbolic objects, and that their type can change. Values can come from constants, from computation involving values of other variables, or from the output of a function. For example: >> x = 17 x = 17 >> x = 'hat... |
risk of flooding and is considered to be the greatest achievement in Dutch hydraulic engineering before the completion of the Zuiderzee Works and Delta Works. The former main branch was, after the dam at its southern inlet was completed in 1904, renamed Afgedamde Maas and no longer receives water from the Maas. The Meu... | listed below in downstream-upstream order, with the town where the tributary meets the river: Dieze (near 's-Hertogenbosch) Aa (in 's-Hertogenbosch) Binnendieze (in 's-Hertogenbosch) Dommel (in 's-Hertogenbosch) Gender (in Eindhoven) Raam (in Grave) Niers (in Gennep) Swalm (in Swalmen) Rur/Roer (in Roermond) Wurm (in H... |
Junior Crazy Gang"; the term "Goon" was used as the headline of a review of Bentine's act by Picture Post dated 5 November 1948. Only one of this first series (and very few of the following three in which he did not appear) has survived, the rest of the original disc recordings having apparently been destroyed or disca... | wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time and made one-off comedy specials. From January to May 1984 Bentine put out 11 half-hour episodes, in two series, of The Michael Bentine Show on Radio 4. These have subsequently been repeated, several times, on the B... |
or in social relationships and activities, or (b) requires admission to hospital to protect the person or others, or (c) the person is suffering psychosis. To be classified as a manic episode, while the disturbed mood and an increase in goal-directed activity or energy is present, at least three (or four, if only irrit... | depressant drug. Individuals may also engage in out-of-character behavior during the episode, such as questionable business transactions, wasteful expenditures of money (e.g., spending sprees), risky sexual activity, abuse of recreational substances, excessive gambling, reckless behavior (such as extreme speeding or ot... |
word has taken on different meanings. In the late 1970s, the term referred to presentations consisting of multi-projector slide shows timed to an audio track. However, by the 1990s 'multimedia' took on its current meaning. In the 1993 first edition of Multimedia: Making It Work, Tay Vaughan declared "Multimedia is any ... | video. Likewise, single forms of information content with single methods of information processing (e.g. non-interactive audio) are often called multimedia, perhaps to distinguish static media from active media. In the fine arts, for example, Leda Luss Luyken's ModulArt brings two key elements of musical composition an... |
Murray (Jeffrey Tambor), Carter's serious and high-strung producer, whose job often becomes a balancing act between supporting Carter's stories and pleasing Network 23's executives. In his younger years he was also a field reporter and may have had some experience with the systems of a controller, though the system in ... | potential love interest for Edison, but that subplot was not explored fully on the show before it was cancelled. Network 23's personnel files list her father as unknown, her mother as deceased, and her brother as Shawn Jones; Shawn is the focus on the second episode broadcast, "Rakers". Theora Jones was played by Amand... |
appropriately. Programmes which presumptively treat all causes of fever with antimalarial drugs may lead to overuse of antimalarials and undertreat other causes of fever. Nevertheless, the use of malaria rapid-diagnostic kits can help to reduce over-usage of antimalarials. Uncomplicated malaria Simple or uncomplicated ... | therapy is another intervention that has been used successfully to control malaria in pregnant women and infants, and in preschool children where transmission is seasonal. Treatment Malaria is treated with antimalarial medications; the ones used depends on the type and severity of the disease. While medications against... |
total of 30 phases (one per day). Waxing and waning When the Sun and Moon are aligned on the same side of the Earth, the Moon is "new", and the side of the Moon facing Earth is not illuminated by the Sun. As the Moon waxes (the amount of illuminated surface as seen from Earth is increasing), the lunar phases progress t... | darker; if the right side is lit, the Moon is getting brighter.) In the Southern Hemisphere, the Moon is observed from a perspective inverted, or rotated 180°, to that of the Northern and to all of the images in this article, so that the opposite sides appear to wax or wane. Closer to the Equator, the lunar terminator ... |
the Jewish people. It is similar to, but slightly different in usage with, the Greek Metonic cycle, and likely derived from or alongside the much earlier Babylonian calendar. Three ancient civilizations (Babylonia, China and Israel) used lunisolar calendars and knew of the rule of the intercalation from as early as 200... | years = 136 lunations plus approximately 1.504 days, i.e. an error of one day in 7.3 years. By combining appropriate numbers of 11-year and 19-year periods, it is possible to generate ever more accurate cycles. For example, combining 17 Metonic cycles with one 11-year cycle gives: 334 tropical years ≈ 121990.89 days 41... |
opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China. 2010 – The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea. 2017 – Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey... | (d. 2016) 1949 – Rudi Koertzen, South African cricketer and umpire 1949 – Vicki Lawrence, American actress, comedian, talk show host, and singer 1949 – Fran Sheehan, American bass player 1949 – Patrick Süskind, German author and screenwriter 1949 – Ernest Lee Thomas, American actor 1950 – Teddy Pendergrass, American si... |
prompted Malpighi's return in 1659 to the University of Bologna, where he continued to teach and do research with his microscopes. In 1661 he identified and described the pulmonary and capillary network connecting small arteries with small veins. Malpighi's views evoked increasing controversy and dissent, mainly from e... | miraculous, were known as "crises." In 1668, Malpighi received a letter from Mr. Oldenburg of the Royal Society in London, inviting him to correspond. Malpighi wrote his history of the silkworm in 1668, and sent the manuscript to Mr. Oldenburg. As a result, Malpighi was made a member of the Royal Society in 1669. In 16... |
In the theory of special relativity, physical quantities are expressed in terms of four-vectors that include time as a fourth coordinate along with the three space coordinates. These vectors are generally represented by capital letters, for example for position. The expression for the four-momentum depends on how the c... | a Minkowski space, the scalar product of two four-vectors and is defined as In all the coordinate systems, the (contravariant) relativistic four-velocity is defined by and the (contravariant) four-momentum is where is the invariant mass. If (in Minkowski space), then Using Einstein's mass-energy equivalence, , this can... |
mixed symptoms have become more common since antidepressant medication has come into widespread use. There is a need for caution when treating bipolar patients with antidepressant medication due to the risks that they pose. Use of mood stabilizers and anticonvulsants such as lamotrigine, carbamazapine, valproate and ot... | combination therapies. Combination therapy (atypical antipsychotic with lithium or valproate) shows better efficacy over monotherapy in the manic phase in terms of efficacy and prevention of relapse. However, side effects are more frequent and discontinuation rates due to adverse events are higher with combination ther... |
from an adoring and irate public. This feedback led to Lewis going back on air to answer listener’s questions. The following January and February, Lewis gave the next set of talks on what would become “What Christians Believe”. The talks remained popular and because of the success of the newly released The Screwtape Le... | as an example, the case of Nazi Germany, writing: "This law was called the Law of nature because people thought that everyone knew it by nature and did not need to be taught it. They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it, just as you find a few people who ... |
playing or observing the game itself. To analyze a game numerically, it is particularly useful to study the rules of the game insofar as they can yield equations or relevant formulas. This is frequently done to determine winning strategies or to distinguish if the game has a solution. List of games Sometimes it is not ... | whose rules, strategies, and outcomes are defined by clear mathematical parameters. Often, such games have simple rules and match procedures, such as Tic-tac-toe and Dots and Boxes. Generally, mathematical games need not be conceptually intricate to involve deeper computational underpinnings. For example, even though t... |
to an end with the surrender of Japan in August 1945. After the war, Gardner returned to the University of Chicago. He attended graduate school for a year there, but he did not earn an advanced degree. In 1950, he wrote an article in the Antioch Review entitled "The Hermit Scientist". It was one of Gardner's earliest a... | invented by Piet Hein and John Nash; Tutte's account of squaring the square; and many other topics. The wide array of mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, philosophers, magicians, artists, writers, and other influential thinkers who can be counted as part of Gardner's mathematical grapevine includes: Robert... |
of each byte are zero (valid MIDI data bytes), there are really only 28 available bits and 4 spare bits. Like most audiovisual timecodes such as SMPTE time code, it encodes only time of day, repeating each 24 hours. Time is given in units of hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. There may be 24, 25, or 30 frames per sec... | frames/s rr = 10: 29.97 frames/s (SMPTE drop-frame timecode) rr = 11: 30 frames/s Byte 1 00mmmmmm: Minute (0–59) Byte 2 00ssssss: Second (0–59) Byte 3 000fffff: Frame (0–29, or less at lower frame rates) Full time code When there is a jump in the time code, a single full-time code is sent to synchronize attached equipm... |
is used by different scientific disciplines for different processes and mechanisms. The phrase is commonly used in engineering for physical processes that involve diffusive and convective transport of chemical species within physical systems. Some common examples of mass transfer processes are the evaporation of water ... | within the system and the diffusivities of the species in each phase. This rate can be quantified through the calculation and application of mass transfer coefficients for an overall process. These mass transfer coefficients are typically published in terms of dimensionless numbers, often including Péclet numbers, Reyn... |
the Seven Dwarfs; a self-portrait; a golf player; and a baseball player swinging his bat. Micromosaics of Harold "Henry" Dalton: Microscopic mosaics from the 19th century depicting flowers, animals, and other objects, made entirely from individual butterfly wing scales and diatoms The Stereofloral Radiographs of Albert... | collection of stereographic radiographs of flowers Rotten Luck: The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay: A collection of decomposing antique dice once owned by magician Ricky Jay and documented in his book Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mt. Wilson Observatory : A... |
in stature to become the most in-demand and highly paid, unsigned band of the year". International success - Business as Usual and Cargo (1981–1983) Early in 1981 Men at Work signed with CBS Records, the Australian branch of CBS Records International, (which became Sony Music) on the recommendation of Peter Karpin, the... | on flute, sax and keyboards, and then John Rees on bass guitar, with Strykert switching to lead guitar. Hay had emigrated to Australia in 1967 from Scotland with his family. In 1978, he had formed an acoustic duo with Strykert, which expanded by mid-1979 with the addition of Speiser. Around this time as a side project,... |
respiratory tract. PPHN in newborns is the leading cause of death in MAS. Apoptosis Apoptosis is an important mechanism in the clearance of injured cells and in tissue repair, however too much apoptosis may cause harm, such as acute lung injury. Meconium induces apoptosis and DNA cleavage of lung airway epithelial cell... | a source of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukins (IL-1, IL-6, IL-8), and mediators produced by neutrophils, macrophages and epithelial cells that may injure the lung tissue directly or indirectly. For example, proteolytic enzymes are released from neutrophilic granules and... |
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