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unusual facts about Instability


Peter Killworth

He had varied interests across the whole of physical oceanography, including the study of ice, polynyas, Rossby waves, instabilities and eddies.


1992 Queensland storms

The meteorological instability in the region resulted in the formation of at least five supercell thunderstorms in the space of around three hours.

2000 in Zimbabwe

23 November - Leading pharmaceutical company, Johnson and Johnson, relocate their manufacturing division to South Africa owing to continuing economic instability.

2006 Westchester County tornado

Daytime heating in the Tri-State Region led to moderate instability, a key factor in the development of showers and thunderstorms.

2009 Georgian demonstrations

On 7 April 2009, Fitch Ratings had warned that Georgia's long-term credit could be downgraded because of the political instability ahead of the planned protests.

2012 US-Israel military exercise

Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said "diplomatic and regional reasons, the tensions and instability" were factors in delaying the exercise.

Aalborg Pirates

The merged team was known as Aalborg Ishockey Klub (AIK) in the period 1997-2003, but following financial instability at the club, the professional license was transferred to Aalborg Boldspilklub or AaB.

Alfred Sherman

Well before the September 11 attacks and the Iraq War, Sherman argued that Washington had "set up the cornerstone of a European Islamistan in Bosnia and a Greater Albania, thus paving the way for further three-sided conflict between Moslems, Serbs and Croats in a bellum omnium contra omnes.... Far from creating a new status quo it has simply intensified instability."

Antón de Palategui

In March, 1555, he settled in Lepanto, during a period of political instability in which Spanish, Ottoman, and Venetian interests all laid claim to the region.

Camera stabilizer

To compensate for camera instability caused by the movement of the operator's body, a camera operator named Garrett Brown invented a body-mounted stabilization apparatus for motion picture cameras, called a Steadicam, which uses springs as shock absorbers.

Cerro Porteño

At the time of Cerro's foundation the situation in Paraguay was tense with instability in the government caused by the fervent rivalries between the two leading political parties, the Partido Colorado (Colorado Party) and the Partido Liberal (Liberal Party).

Chen Pokong

Topics of Chen's analysis include a range of contemporary topics involving the People's Republic of China and its political system, including: instability, corruption, economic affairs, military affairs, foreign relations, cross-Strait affairs, political reform, and strategic affairs.

Chromosomal rearrangement

This instability is usually due to the propensity of these regions to misalign during DNA repair, exacerbated by defects of the appearance of replication proteins (like FEN1 or Pol δ) that ubiquitously affect the integrity of the genome.

Cleistogamy

However, preliminary results from Co-Extra, a current project within the EU research programme, show that although cleistogamy reduces gene flow, it is not at the moment a consistently reliable tool for biocontainment: due to a certain instability of the cleistogamous trait, some flowers may open and release genetically modified pollen.

Cyclone Kesiny

The cyclone struck in the midst of a political crisis, in which the top two candidates of the Malagasy presidential election in 2001 declared themselves the winner; the incumbent, who lost, declared Toamasina as the capital city, and the political instability disrupted relief efforts.

Daniel Scioli

In 1991 the Swedish company Electrolux, which had left the Argentine market on account of the country’s instability, nominated him as the agent of its brand for Argentina.

David Nyheim

In 2003, he co-authored the Peace and Security Strategy (PASS) for Shell Nigeria that accurately predicted serious instability in the Niger Delta.

Economic history of Spain

The boom came to an end with the oil shocks of the 1970s and government instability during the transition back to democracy after Franco's death in 1975.

EfB Ishockey

Until 2004 the team played under the name of E.I.K. (Esbjerg Ishockey Klub), but due to financial instability at the club, the professional license was transferred to Esbjerg fB which is a Danish football team currently playing in the Danish Superliga which is the top football league in Denmark.

Firehose instability

The firehose instability is precisely complementary, in this sense, to the Jeans instability in the plane, which is stabilized at short wavelengths, \lambda < \lambda J.

Gaudentius of Ossero

It is believed that his reforms did not comply with the wishes of some noble men from Osor, who took advantage of the instability within the papal state and attacked him.

HardOCP

In 2005, Falcon NorthwestOCP, which had received a system from Falcon that performed less than optimally, with noted instability, and reported these findings to their reader base.

Herbert Hyland

Appointed minister without portfolio in the minority Country Party government of Sir Albert Dunstan in June 1936, Hyland was promoted to various ministries, both in minority Country Party and in coalition cabinets, until the election of the Cain government in 1952 brought a temporary halt to the instability of Victorian politics.

History of Guinea

In 2000 Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war.

Human rights in Bangladesh

In 2005, Bangladesh experienced an unprecedented period of continuous political instability.

James Hackman Tachie-Menson

In 1980, as a result of political instability in his native country, Ghana, Captain Tachie-Menson returned to England and back to sea as Captain on various vessels initially in the fleet of the Nigerian National Shipping Line, and subsequently with the fleet of GRUNDSTAD MARITIME OVERSEAS, INC., a company founded by his longtime friend and shipping colleague, Oddmund Grundstad.

Johann Nepomuk Beck

In the late 1880s, Beck began to show signs of mental instability and was hospitalized in a mental institution in Inzersdorf.

John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Political instability caused by warfare during the Thirty Years War caused John to be educated in Zerbst, Coswig, and Wittenberg at various times.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

He had a history of job instability and considered that he could get a position worthy of his status as a reincarnation of Santander and Quesada.

Liberal democracy period in Indonesia

It saw a number of important events, including the 1955 Asian–African Conference, Indonesia's first general and Constitutional Assembly elections, and was an extended period of political instability, with no cabinet lasting as long as two years.

Mammatus cloud

Another method, that was first proposed by Kerry Emanuel, is called cloud-base detrainment instability (CDI), which acts very much like convective cloud-top entrainment.

Mayor of Reykjavik City

Since 2003 seven people have held the mayor position, due to an unprecedented amount of instability in Reykjavík's municipal coalition government caused in part by the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis.

Mekelle University

However, it was first established at theUniversity of Asmara as a faculty, but was then moved to Agarfa in southern Ethiopia, when the Derg displaced Asmara University in 1990 due to the political instability at the time.

Nicolas Tétrault

He argued that the pledge would create instability for municipal government on the Island of Montreal, where several municipalities had recently been merged to create a united city.

Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel

If the numerical procedure is thought of as a feedback system, this calculation noise may be viewed as a signal that is applied to the system, which will lead to instability unless the system is carefully designed.

Organic peroxide

Acetone peroxide is an ingredient in explosive for paramilitaries because of its ease of manufacture, despite its instability.

Organouranium chemistry

For example Henry Gilman attempted to synthesize compounds like tetramethyluranium and others worked on uranium metal carbonyls but none of the efforts met success due to organouranium instability.

Politics of Valledupar

Relatively prompt to political violence the politics of Valledupar have been divided between periods of political instability and periods of relatively political stability along a hegemony between the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Liberal Party following ideals of Colombian Liberalism and Conservatism respectively.

Postage stamps and postal history of Colombia

From the Spanish Colonial era to modern times the history of Colombia has been marked by political change and instability which is reflected in its philatelic history.

Richtmyer–Meshkov instability

R. D. Richtmyer provided a theoretical prediction in "Taylor instability in a shock acceleration of compressible fluids", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13, 297-319 (1960).

Second Federal Republic of Mexico

Like the Mexican Empire, the First Federal Republic and the Centralist Republic it was a chaotic period, marked by political instability that resulted in several internal conflicts which comprised the Reform War.

Severan dynasty

His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.

Spiru Haret

He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by introducing the concept of secular perturbations in relation to this.

Stephanie Nolen

Her dispatches concerned the consequences of war and political instability in a variety of places within Africa, particularly Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Uganda (specifically the Lord's Resistance Army).

Strategy for Operation Herrick

End State Objective: A secure Afghanistan in which the Afghan Government and civilian population are protected from sources of instability and violence.

Teutonic thrash metal

Destruction would instead face a period of instability which saw them split with frontman Schmier, releasing a thrash album without him (Cracked Brain), then attempting to go radio-friendly and less "thrashy" with the poorly received The Least Successful Human Cannonball.

Thermomagnetic convection

B. A. Finlayson first explained in 1970 (in his paper "Convective instability of ferromagnetic fluids", Journal of Fluid Mechanics 40:753-767) how an external magnetic field imposed on a ferrofluid with varying magnetic susceptibility, e.g., due to a temperature gradient, results in a nonuniform magnetic body force, which leads to thermomagnetic convection.


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