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2011 Missouri River Flood

On June 27, officials said 12 of 70 planned dewatering wells at Eppley Airfield in Omaha were functional.

Aberford

The village contains a number of functional buildings, such as Aberford Church of England primary School, affiliated with the St Ricarius parish church adjacent to it.

Active contour model

Where G {\sigma} is a Gaussian standard deviation \sigma minima of this functional lie on zero-crossings of

Alston's brown mouse

Furthermore, some studies have examined the functional role of FOXP2 expression in S. teguina and other vocalizing rodent species.

Anna Vainikka

- i.e. the initial state of the L2 is the final state of the first - Young-Scholten and Vainikka have argued that only lexical categories (e.g. the noun phrase) are drawn from the L1, and that functional categories (e.g. the inflectional phrase that represents tense) do not; rather, the learner 'grows' new ones because they start their L2 acquisition with only a 'minimal' syntactic tree.

Astemizole

Astemizole does also act as FIASMA (functional inhibitor of acid sphingomyelinase).

Behavioral activation

Behavioral activation owes its basis to Charles Ferster's Functional Analysis of Depression (1973) which developed B.F. Skinner's idea of depression, within his analysis of motivation, as a lack of reinforcement.

Bergpolderflat

The flat has a steel skeleton and was designed in 1933/1934 by the architect W. de Tijen in collaboration with architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt in the Modern style, functional, sleek, light and airy.

Bioconjugation

One strategy is to first install a unique functional group onto a protein, and then a bioorthogonal or click type reaction is used to couple a biomolecule with this unique functional group.

Business architecture

Business Architecture articulates the functional structure of a enterprise in terms of its business services and business information.

City of Westminster Magistrates' Court

The court building, designed by C. A. Legerton and opened in 1974, was functional and "of minimal personality and minimal expression of function and purpose", according to Pevsner.

Craig L. Hill

Professor Hill’s research encompasses fundamental structural and reactivity studies, Catalysis, functional nanomaterials (Nanotechnology), antiviral chemotherapy and solar energy conversion (Artificial Photosynthesis).

Dowagiac, Michigan

Billi Gordon - Model, Actor, Author, Television & Film Writer, & Doctor of Functional Human Brain Research

EConnectome

eConnectome (Electrophysiological Connectome) is an open-source MATLAB toolbox with graphical user interfaces for mapping and imaging brain functional connectivity at both the scalp and cortical levels from electrophysiological signals including electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocorticogram (ECoG).

Eric Schadt

In 1999, after becoming acquainted with Stephen Friend, he was hired as chief scientist at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a startup biotech company focused on the generation and analysis of high-dimensional functional genomics data.

Free and open-source graphics device driver

The functional blocks (i.e. the display driver ASIC, the 3D acceleration ASIC, the 2D acceleration ASIC, Video decoding and Video encoding ASIC) are separate SIP (SIP) blocks, since the hardware devices are very different from each other.

Functional derivative

For the electron-nucleus potential, Thomas and Fermi employed the Coulomb potential energy functional

For the classical part of the electron-electron interaction, Thomas and Fermi employed the Coulomb potential energy functional

Functional medicine

The Institute for Functional Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and achieved its accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education on September 12, 2006 and was awarded the status of Accreditation with Commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians.

Gateway Cassette

The Gateway Technology provides a quick and highly efficient way to move genes into a multiple vector system for functional analysis and protein expression (Invitrogen, Gateway Technology Manual, 2003).

Genome browser

The app, developed by the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a functional presentation of the popular UCSC Genome Browser.

Japanese Sign Language family

Although Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin are unrelated, those using JSL, KSL and TSL can interact easily because of the commonalities all share, such as functional markers .

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error.

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Kazuyuki Nakamura is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Functional Proteomics, at Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.

Krogh Island

The island was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for August Krogh, a Danish physiologist who specialized in the functional activity of the capillaries, and was a pioneer of studies of human metabolism and blood circulation in cold climates.

Lisinopril

Like other ACE inhibitors, it is a synthetic functional and structural analog of a peptide derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (Bothrops jararaca).

Mate Parlov Sport Centre

Mate Parlov Sport Centre is a multi-functional hall in Pula.

Mechanical calculator

In 1727, a German, Antonius Braun, presented the first fully functional four operations machine to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna.

Modern Drunkard Magazine

The theme of the magazine − a celebration of alcohol and the seemingly bohemian lifestyles of functional alcoholics − runs counter to the message of moderation commonly found in mainstream America: regular features include "Alcocomics − Cartoons for the sober challenged," "Post Cards from Skid Row" (featuring poetry written by and/or for the inebriated), "Wino Wisdom," and "You Know You're a Drunkard When..."

Mogens Koch

He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and between 1925 and 1932 worked for Carl Petersen, Ivar Bentsen and Kaare Klint, where he was trained in the Danish functional tradition.

Molecular drive

According to Gabriel A. Dover, TRAM is a genetic system that has features of Non-mendelian inheritance Turnover, copy number and functional Redundancy And Modulatory.

Motor City Online

The game featured some role-playing video game elements, such as leveling up after completing tasks (e.g. winning races), and a functional, supply and demand economy for players to get involved in.

Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development

Demetriou integrated into the theory the constructs of speed and control of processing and he formulated the functional shift model which unifies Pascual-Leone's notion of underlying common dimension of capacity development with the notion of qualitative changes in mental structure as development progresses along this dimension.

Nji Oumarou Nchare

With the project's Co-Director, Konrad Tuchscherer, he has traveled the Bamum Kingdom collecting and photographing threatened documents, created a modern archives for the storage of documents, and helped to create a functional computer font for the Bamum script.

Path integral

Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics using functional integration, due to Richard Feynman

Functional integration, the integral of a functional over a space of curves

Perceptual paradox

wrote that "Practitioners will only be able to claim that a valid explanation of a histological observation has been provided if three questions can be answered satisfactorily: what is the functional role of the arrangement in the animal; what mechanisms underlie this function; and what sequence of chemical and mechanical events during evolution and development gave rise to these mechanisms?"

Performance testing

A type of Physical test covering a wide range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics.

Persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis

Immunologically, peripheral B-cells show more functional IgD+ positive CD27 cells than usual.

Peter Riederer

Riederer has received 14 international awards and was sitting in the editorial and advisory boards of various peer-reviewed scientific journals including Journal of Neural Transmission, Amino Acid, New Trends in Clinical Neuropharmacology, Biogenic Amines, Functional Neurology, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research, Neuropsychobiologie, Parkionsonism & Related Disorders.

POSDCORB

Gulick states that his statement of the work of a chief executive is adapted from the functional analysis elaborated by Henri Fayol in his "Industrial and General Administration".

Psychophysiological Interaction

Psycho-Physiological Interactions or PPI is a brain imaging method of estimating the effective connectivity, or functional coupling, between a brain region and the rest of the brain with relation to the performance of a particular psychological task.

Resonances in scattering from potentials

The physics is similar to that of transmission in Fabry–Pérot interferometer in optics, where the resonance condition and functional form of Transmission co-efficient are the same.

Sachtleben Chemie

In September 2008, Rockwood Holdings, Inc. entered into a joint venture with Kemira Oyj, of Finland, combining Rockwood's titanium dioxide and functional additives activities (with production based in Duisburg, Germany) and Kemira's titanium dioxide business (with production at Pori, Finland).

Suspension of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

The move to make Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry ‘non functional’ was immediately followed by yet another decision by the president to send a reference under Article 209 of the Constitution of Pakistan to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to investigate allegations of misconduct against him.

System appreciation

Key deliverables from this phase include documentation that describes what the system does in terms of its functional features, and how it achieves those features in terms of its architecture and design.

Unitary urbanism

The rejection of the standard Euclidean, almost wholly functional, approach to urban architectural design, and

United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade

The subcommittee is away of two primary subcommittee with what the committee calls "functional jurisdiction", the other being the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery

Yehuda advocates simple, traditional, functional biking as espoused by the philosophy of Grant Petersen of Rivendell Bicycle Works.


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