-logy - A. Acarology, the study of ticks and mites Acridilogy, the study of Grasshoppers and Locusts Actinobiology, the study of the effects of radiation upon living organisms Actinology, the study of the effect of light on chemicals Aerobiology, a branch of biology that studies organic particles, such as bacteria, fungal spores, very small insects and pollen, which are passively transported by the air. Aerology, the study of the free ...

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The antipodes of any place on the Earth is the place which is diametrically opposite it — so situated that a line drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the Earth and forms a true diameter. For example, the antipodes of New Zealand's north island lie in Spain. An antipodal point is sometimes called an antipode, a back-formation from the Greek plural antipodes, whos ...

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A laser is composed of an active laser medium and a resonant optical cavity. The gain medium is a material of controlled purity, size, and shape, which uses a quantum mechanical effect called stimulated emission (discovered by Einstein while researching the photoelectric effect) to amplify the beam. For a laser to operate, the gain medium must be "pumped" by an external energy source, such as electricity or light (from a classical source such as a flash lamp, or another laser). The pump energy is absorbed by the laser medium to produc ...

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The origin of the name Chuts is uncertain. A popular assumption is that it derives from the Dutch word for "good" and is imitative of the foreign-language chatter that others heard. It is also Hebrew חוץ for "outside" or "in the street" and may have been applied to the Dutch Jews of London either because they were socially isolated or because many were street vendors. Another possibility is that the Hebrew word would have appeared increasingly in Amsterdam synagogue records as more and more emigrated to London, and others who followed would have "go ...

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Serif fonts can be classified into one of four subgroups: old style, transitional, slab serif, or modern. Serif - Old Style. Old style typefaces date back to the 15th century, and are characterized by a diagonal stressing, subtle differences between thick and thin lines (low line contrast), and excellent readability. Old style typefaces are reminiscent of the humanist calligraphy from which their forms were derived. The angled stressing of old style faces generates diagonal lock, which, when combined with their bracket serifs creates detailed, positive word-p ...

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-logy - A. Acarology, the study of ticks and mites Actinobiology, the study of the effects of radiation upon living organisms Actinology, the study of the effect of light on chemicals Aerobiology, a branch of biology that studies organic particles, such as bacteria, fungal spores, very small insects and pollen, which are passively transported by the air. Aerology, the study of the free atmosphere Aeropalynology, the study of pollen grains and spores ...

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Some of the most important zoonoses are: Anthrax Brucellosis Borna virus infection Bubonic plague Campylobacteriosis Chagas disease Cutaneous larva migrans Ocular larval migrans Ebola fever Lassa fever Leishmaniasis Leptospirosis Listeriosis Marburg virus infection MRSA Ornithosis Q-Fever Rabies Rift Valley fever Salmonellosis SARS (possibly; civet cat ...

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Some of the most important zoonoses are: Anthrax Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Brucellosis Borna virus infection Bubonic plague Campylobacteriosis Cutaneous larva migrans Ocular larval migrans Ebola fever Lassa fever Leptospirosis Listeriosis Marburg virus infection MRSA Ornithosis Q-Fever Rabies Salmonellosis SARS (possibly; civet cats may spread the diseas ...

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Peas have been found in Near Eastern archaeological sites which date back nearly 10,000 years. Domesticated cultivars appeared relatively shortly after wheat and barley, which appear to have been cultivated as long ago as 7800 B.C. By 2000 B.C., pea cultivation had spread throughout Europe and east into India and China. Peas are a cool-season vegetable crop. The seeds may be planted as soon as the soil temperature reaches 10 °C, with the plants growing best at temperatures of 13 °C to 18 °C. They do not thrive in the summer heat of ...

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The basic combinatorial question is how many different polyiamonds with a given number of triangles exist. If mirror images are considered identical, the number of possible n-iamonds for n = 1, 2, 3, … is (sequence A000577 in OEIS): 1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 12, 24, 66, 160, … As with polyominoes, fixed polyiamonds (where different orientations count as distinct) and one-sided polyiamonds (where mirror images count as distinct but rotations count as identical) may also be de ...

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The endless loop tape cartridge was designed in 1952 by Bernard Cousino of Toledo, Ohio, around a single reel carrying a continuous loop of standard 1/4 inch plastic oxide-coated recording tape. Program starts and stops were signalled either by a conductive foil splice or sub-audible tones. The 8-track version simplified the mechanism by rolling the motorized metal capstan in the player against a pinch wheel installed inside the cartridge to pull the tape across the player's read head (in the earlier 4-track Stereo-Pak, the pinch wheel was p ...

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Some of the most common examples include: ABS system = Anti-lock Braking System system AC current = Alternating Current current ARC computing = Advanced RISC Computing computing = Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computing computing ASB Bank = Auckland Savings Bank Bank ASCII code = American Standard Code for Information Interchange ...

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CIDR is principally a bitwise, prefix-based standard for the interpretation of IP addresses. It facilitates routing by allowing blocks of addresses to be grouped together into single routing table entries. These groups, commonly called CIDR blocks, share an initial sequence of bits in the binary representation of their IP addresses. IPv4 CIDR blocks are identified using a syntax similar to that of IPv4 addresses: a four-part dotted-decimal address, followed by a slash, then a number from 0 to 32: A.B.C.D/N. The dotted decimal p ...

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The story of Thomas Crapper and his achievements has been somewhat confused by Wallace Reyburn's 1969 book Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper (ISBN 1857028600), a heavily fictionalised satirical biography in the style of scholarship [1]. Adam Hart-Davis' later writings on Crapper help set the record straight. Crapper was born in Waterside, Yorkshire (near Thorne), in September 1836 (the exact date is unknown). His father Charles was a steamboat captain. At the age of 14, Crapper was apprenticed to a master plumber ...

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In many ways, compared to British English, American English is conservative in its phonology. The conservatism of American English is largely the result of the fact that it represents a mixture of various dialects from the British Isles. Dialect in North America is most distinctive on the East Coast of the continent; this is largely because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when those varieties were undergoing changes. The interior of the country was settled by people wh ...

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Brunel is one of a number of UK universities created in the 1960s following the Robbins Report on higher education (often called the plate glass universities). Originally Acton Technical College, based in Acton on the outskirts of London, it was decided in 1957 that the college should split into two sections – Acton Technical College continued to cater to technicians and craftsmen, whereas Brunel College of Technology (named for Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the ...

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The term plays a certain role in the discussion about the shape of the Earth. The antipodes being an attribute of a spherical Earth, some authors used their perceived absurdity as an argument for a flat Earth. However, knowledge of the spherical Earth being widespread even during the Dark Ages, only occasionally disputed on dogmatic grounds, the medieval dispute surrounding the antipodes mainly concerned the question whether they were inhabitable: since the torrid clime was considered impassable, it would have been impossible to evangelize t ...

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In traditional print, serif fonts are used for body text because the serifs create more positive word-pictures which are easier to read. Sans-serif fonts are used for shorter pieces of text and for subject matter requiring a more casual feel than the formal look of seriffed types. Sans serif types have recently begun to supplant seriffed types for headings with a 'cleaner' look. Seriffed fonts are the overwhelming type choice for lengthy text printed in books, newspapers and magazines. The coarse resolution of computer screens has caused a reassessment of the role of serifs in readability, with a large percentage of web pages employing ...

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The Greek word is attested in Plato's dialogue Timaeus, already referring to a spherical Earth, explaining the relativity of the terms "above" and "below": For if there were any solid body in equipoise at the centre of the universe, there would be nothing to draw it to this extreme rather than to that, for they are all perfectly similar; and if a person were to go round the world in a circle, he would often, when standing at the antipodes of his former position, speak of the same point as above and below; for, as I was ...

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In 1916, Albert Einstein laid the foundation for the invention of the laser and its predecessor, the maser, in a ground-breaking rederivation of Max Planck's law of radiation based on the concepts of spontaneous and induced emission. The theory was forgotten until after World War II. In 1953, Charles H. Townes and graduate students James P. Gordon and Herbert J. Zeiger produced the first maser, a device operating on similar principles to the laser, but producing microwave rather than optical radiation. Townes' maser was incapable of c ...

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