A cap is a form of headgear. Caps have crowns that fit closer than hats and have no brim or only a visor. They are typically designed for warmth and, when including a visor, blocking the sun from the eyes.
Cap - Types of caps.
Baseball cap
Beanie
Beret
Biretta
Cap of maintenance
Coif
Combination cap (also known as service cap)
Flat cap
Kepi
Newsboy cap
Tam
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Tuque
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The cervical cap is a barrier method of contraception.
A cervical cap is a device that is inserted into the vagina.
It has a thimble shape and fits snugly over the cervix; suction is used to keep the cap in place. The inside of the cap should be filled with a spermicide to combat sperm which get past the cap. There are caps in different styles and sizes. They are made of latex or medical silicone.
Initially a health care provider should find the right size for the user. The cap must be inserted at least 1 hour before sexual intercourse and has to remai ...
The required enzymes for capping are found bound to the RNA polymerase II before transcription starts. As soon as the 5' end of the new transcript emerges the enzymes transfer to it and begin the capping process (this is a similar kind of mechanism to ensure capping as for polyadenylation).
The enzymes for capping can only bind to RNA polymerase II ensuring specificity to only these transcripts, which are almost entirely mRNA.
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A combination cap is a form of military headgear worn with dress uniforms. It has a crown, a band and bill (peak in British English). In Britain such caps are usually known as peaked caps or (in the British Army) service dress caps. In the United States military, they are commonly known as service caps or barracks covers.
The crown is one color, often white for navies, sky blue for air forces, and green for armies, and may be piped around the edge in a different color. The band can be one colo ...
The peninsula of Cap-Vert (Cape Verde, meaning "Cape Green") is the westernmost part of the continent of Africa. It is a rocky promontory extending west from the main sandy areas of Senegal. The capital of Senegal, the large city of Dakar, is located near the southern tip. Cap-Vert has an excellent harbor, facing Gorée Island.
Cap-Vert was inhabited historically by the Lebou people, a fishing community that still lives on the north ...
The 5' cap is a specially altered dinucleotide end to the 5' end of messenger RNA as found in eukaryotes. The process of 5' capping is vital to translation and stability of the messenger RNA, and is a highly regulated process which occurs in the nucleus.
5' cap - 5' Cap Structure.
The 5' cap is found on the 5' end of an mRNA molecule and consists of a guanosine nucleotide connected to the mRNA via an unusual 5' to 5' triphosphate linkage.
Further modifications include the methylation of the guanosine, and t ...
Cradle Cap (infantile seborrhoeic dermatitis) is a patchy, greasy, scaly and crusty skin rash that occurs on the scalp of recently born babies. Cradle cap can occur in any baby, and most commonly begins sometime in the first 3 months. The same rash is often prominent around the ear or the eyebrows. It may appear in other locations as well, where it is called seborrheic dermatitis rather than cradle cap.
Cradle cap - Causes.
The cause of cradle cap is not clearly defined but it is not caused by an in ...
In sports, a cap is an appearance for a national team. The term can be applied to any nationality of player. The practice was first approved on May 10, 1886 for football, after a proposal made by N. L. Jackson, an Old Corinthian:
"That all players taking part for England in future international matches be presented with a white silk cap with red rose embroidered on the front. These to be termed 'International Caps."
The term dates from the practice in the UK of awarding a cap (meaning an item of headgear) to every ...
The Death Cap (Amanita phalloides) is one of numerous poisonous species of mushrooms in the genus Amanita. This is a large and distinctive fungal fruiting body or basidiocarp, usually with a pileus (cap) from 5 to 15 cm across, smooth yellow to brown with a green tinge and a partial veil, white fine lamellae (gills), and a white 4 to 18 cm stipe (stalk) with an annulus and a swollen volva (base). An entirely white form (Amanita phalloides var. alba) is also occasionally found. It is fou ...
Wavy cap or Caramel-capped psilocybe (Psilocybe cyanescens) is a psychedelic mushroom whose main active compound is psilocybin. It belongs to the family Strophariaceae in the order Agaricales.
Wavy cap - Appearance.
Psilocybe cyanescens has a hygrophanous pileus that is fawn-brown when moist, becoming pale ochreous when drying. It bruises with a bluish or blue-green color, often still visible on dried stipe.
The mushroom grows to a height of 2-5 cm.
Wavy cap - Habi ...
In English law, the Black Cap was worn by a judge when passing a sentence of death. The death penalty has now been abolished in England and Wales, but the black cap is still part of a judge's regalia, and is worn on November 9 when the new Lord Mayor of London is presented to the Law Courts.
Black Cap - Reference.
The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (ISBN 1840223103)
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A Cap of Maintenance is a ceremonial crimson velvet cap, lined with ermine.
It is borne, as one of the insignia of the British sovereign, immediately before his or her at coronation or on such state occasions as the State Opening of Parliament. It is carried by the hereditary bearer, the Marquess of Winchester, upon a white wand.
A similar cap is also borne before the Lord Mayor of London and mayors of other cities.
The origin of this symbol of dignity is obscure. It may hav ...
The caps lock is a key on a computer keyboard. Pressing it causes the keyboard to go into a mode in which letter keys are interpreted as capital letters by default. The caps lock does not affect the number or punctuation keys on a typical QWERTY keyboard.
Certain keyboard layouts such as the French, older computers such as the Commodore 64, and most typewriters have a shift lock key. This is akin to the caps lock, but also affects the number and punctuation keys, causing them to type the characters they would if the shif ...
A blasting cap is a small explosive device generally used to detonate a larger, more powerful explosive such as dynamite.
Blasting caps come in a variety of types, some of which are: non-electric caps, electric caps and fuse caps. They are used in commercial mining and are set off by a dynamo device which generates a short burst of current in a line long enough to ensure safety,
The need for blasting caps arises due to sensitivity issues of an explosive compound. All explosive compounds have a certain amount of energy re ...
In mathematics, a cross-cap is a two-dimensional surface that is topologically equivalent to a Möbius strip. The term 'cross-cap', however, often implies that the surface has been deformed so that its boundary is an ordinary circle.
A cross-cap that has been closed up by gluing a disc to its boundary is called a real projective plane. Two cross-caps glued together at their boundaries form a Klein bottle. An important theorem of topology, the classification theorem for surfaces, states that all two-dimensional nonorientable manifolds are spheres with some ...
Bottle caps are used to seal the opening of a bottle. For glass bottles they are small circular pieces of metal with plastic backings, and for plastic bottles a plastic cap is used instead. A bottle cap is typically colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand of beverage. Plastic bottle caps are often made of a different type of plastic than the bottle itself, and may not be recycleable.
Bottle caps were originally designed to be pressed over and around the top of the glass bottle to grab a small flange on the bottle. To op ...
Cap-Haïtien (or Le Cap) (Okap or Kapayisyen in Kreyòl) is a city of about 180,000 people (2003 census) on the north coast of Haiti. It is the capital of Nord department. Due to its proximity to wide Caribbean beaches to its northwest, Cap-Haïtien has traditionally been a resort and vacation destination for Haiti's upper classes.
The central area of the city is located between the Bay of Cap-Haïtien to the east, and nearby mountainsides to the west, which are increasingly dominated by flimsy urban slums. ...
A baseball cap is a type of soft cap with a long, stiffened and curved peak and it is worn by men, women and children. The back of the cap often has a plastic, Velcro, or elastic adjustor so that it can be quickly adjusted to fit any wearer, although fitted caps also exist. Those with long hair sometimes wear their hair in a ponytail which they pull through the gap in the cap above the adjustor. The cap is normally sewn in sections, and may be topped with a matching fabric-covered button on the crown. Traditionally the peak is worn ov ...
An adjustable rate mortgage or variable rate mortgage is a loan secured on a property (house) whose interest rate and so monthly repayment vary over time. Other forms of mortgage loan include interest only mortgage, fixed rate mortgage, Negative amortization mortgage, discounted rate mortgage and balloon payment mortgage. Adjustable rates transfer part of the interest rate risk from the lender to the borrower. They can be used where unpredictable interest rates make fixed rate loans difficult to obtain. The borrower benefits i ...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies which represents about 44% of the EU's spending (€49bn scheduled spend for 2005 [1]). These subsidies work by guaranteeing a minimum price to producers and by direct payment of a subsidy for crops planted. This provides some economic certainty for EU farmers and production of a certain quantity of agricultural goods. Reforms of the system are currently underway including a phased transfer of subsidy to land stewardship rather than specific crop production from 2005 to 2012. Detailed implementat ...
