(from the article "magnetic circuit") ...unbroken loop. All the lines together constitute the total flux. If the flux is divided, so that part of it is confined to a portion of the device and part ...
(from the article "Watt, James") ...engine, in which the piston pushed as well as pulled. The engine required a new method of rigidly connecting the piston to the beam. He solved this problem in 1784 ...
(from the article "ohmmeter") ...for measuring electrical resistance, which is expressed in ohms. In the simplest ohmmeters, the resistance to be measured may be connected to the instrument in parallel or in series. If ...
(from the article "perspective") Another kind of system-parallel perspective combined with a viewpoint from above-is traditional in Chinese painting. When buildings rather than natural contours are painted and it is necessary to show the ...
(from the article "radiation") ...increased. Some unusual alloys exhibit yields up to 100 times greater than normal (i.e., about 0.1). Normally the yield depends also on polarization and angle of incidence of the radiation. ...
(from the article "mathematics, foundations of") When Euclid presented his axiomatic treatment of geometry, one of his assumptions, his fifth postulate, appeared to be less obvious or fundamental than the others. As it is now conventionally ...
(from the article "computer graphics") One way to reduce the time required for accurate rendering is to use parallel processing, so that in ray shading, for example, multiple rays can be traced at once. Another ...
(from the article "airport") An increase in operational capacity under VFR is possible with the use of a close parallel runway configuration. Most very large airports must be assured of adequate capacity even under ...
(from the article "drafting") ...value in the preparation of such drawings. Equipment has been invented to facilitate the performance of the manual tasks. Most widely known are the T square, triangle, protractor, and compass; ...
(from the article "Nordheim, Sondre") ...the prototype for modern skis. He developed basic skiing turns, which became standard as the stem turn, the Christiania, and the stem Christiania. In 1850 he had been the first ...
(from the article "heat exchanger") ...In the diagram the cold fluid flows through the inner tube and the warm fluid in the same direction through the annular space between the outer and the inner tube. ...
(from the article "electricity") A useful device for storing electrical energy consists of two conductors in close proximity and insulated from each other. A simple example of such a storage device is the parallel-plate ...
(from the article "parallelism") Parallelism is a prominent figure in Hebrew poetry as well as in most literatures of the ancient Middle East. The Old Testament and New Testament, reflecting the influence of Hebrew ...
in rhetoric, component of literary style in both prose and poetry, in which coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Portuguese literature") ...existence of an indigenous popular oral poetry in sung verse during the preceding centuries. A composition attributed to Alfonso X, a 13th-century king of Castile and Leon, is the earliest ...
(from the article "vector") ...or subtracted. For example, to add or subtract vectors v and w graphically (see the diagram), move each to the origin and complete the ...
(from the article "Lepidodendron") ...plants that lived during the Carboniferous Period (360 to 300 million years ago). Lepidodendron and its relatives-Lepidophloios, Bothrodendron, and Paralycopodites-were related to modern club mosses. They grew up to 40 ...
loss or impairment of voluntary muscular movement caused by structural abnormalities of nervous or muscular tissue or by metabolic disturbances in neuromuscular function. Paralysis can affect the legs and lower ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "polio") In most cases paralytic polio strikes the limb muscles, particularly the legs. Paralysis does not always involve the limbs, however. The abdominal muscles or the muscles of the back may ...
(from the article "poison") ...have been Gonyaulax catenella along the Pacific coast of North America and G. tamarensis along the eastern coast of North America. Intoxications from these organisms are known as paralytic shellfish ...
(from the article "ECKANKAR") The Sant Mat tradition was established by Param Sant Ji Maharaj (1818-78), who taught surat shabd yoga, the yoga of the "Sound Current." He believed that the ...
kind of magnetism characteristic of materials weakly attracted by a strong magnet, named and extensively investigated by the British scientist Michael Faraday beginning in 1845. Most elements and some compounds ... [12 Related Articles]
(from the article "sannyasi") Among dashanamisannyasis, the highest stage of achievement is recognized by the title paramahamsa ("great swan"). This honorific is usually given ...
(from the article "Prarthana Samaj") The immediate predecessor of the Prarthana Samaj in Bombay was the Paramahamsa Sabha, a secret society formed in 1849 for discussion, the singing of hymns, and the sharing of a ...
prince-patriarch of the Siamese Buddhist church who was a prolific writer on patriotic and moralistic themes in verse and prose. He became abbot of Watphra Jetubon and was later created ...
(from the article "India") Adjoining the kingdom of the Caulukyas was that of the Paramaras in Malava, with minor branches in the territories just to the north (Mount Abu, Banswara, Cungarpur, and Bhinmal). The ...
largest city, capital, and chief port of Suriname. It lies 9 miles (15 km) from the Atlantic Ocean on the Suriname River. It originated as an Indian village that became ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Buddhism") The Yogacara school was represented in China primarily by the Faxiang (or Dharmalaksana; also Weishi) school, called Hosso in Japan. Paramartha, an Indian missionary-teacher, introduced the basic Yogacara teachings to ...
(from the article "Mahayana") ...samsara and nirvana cannot be sustained. As developed by later philosophers, such as Jnanagarbha in the 8th century, the doctrine of the Two Truths, absolute truth (paramarthasatya) ...
genus of free-living protozoans of the holotrichous order Hymenostomatida. There are at least eight well-defined species; all can be cultivated easily in the laboratory. Although they vary in size, most ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "kappa organism") gram-negative symbiotic bacterium found in the cytoplasm of certain strains of the protozoan Paramecium aurelia. These bacteria, when released into the surroundings, change to P particles that secrete a poison ...
(from the article "zoochlorella") ...Tetraselmis, Carteria) that lives within the bodies of various freshwater protozoans and invertebrates. Zoochlorellae often colour their hosts green (e.g., green hydra and green Paramecium bursaria). As symbionts, zoochlorellae use ...
(from the article "Paramecium") ...free-living protozoans of the holotrichous order Hymenostomatida. There are at least eight well-defined species; all can be cultivated easily in the laboratory. Although they vary in size, most Paramecium species ...
health-care workers who provide clinical services to patients under the supervision of a physician. The term generally encompasses nurses, therapists, technicians, and other ancillary personnel involved in medical care but ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Malacca, sultanate of") ...the great entrepot of Malacca (Melaka) and its dependencies and provided Malay history with its golden age, still evoked in idiom and institutions. The founder and first ruler of Malacca, ...
in mathematics, a variable for which the range of possible values identifies a collection of distinct cases in a problem. Any equation expressed in terms of parameters is a parametric ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "gravitation") ...well by observation.) In a whole class of more-general theories, these and other effects not predicted by simple Newtonian theory are characterized by free parameters; such formulations are called parameterized ...
general method for finding a particular solution of a differential equation by replacing the constants in the solution of a related (homogeneous) equation by functions and determining these functions so ...
(from the article "monasticism") Paramilitary, or quasi-monastic, associations are another type of monastic group. Whereas most Christian orders of this sort also fulfilled medical or healing commitments, non-Christian monastic orders of this type did ...
(from the article "Colombia") Meanwhile, paramilitary leaders threatened to end their cooperation with government investigations, and some of the 31,000 rank-and-file fighters who had stood down were rearming. The leaders argued that they were ...
(from the article "Colombia") ...than 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) between Cali and Buenaventura on the Pacific coast mark the lowest depressions in the range. Elsewhere the crest is much higher, reaching 12,992 feet (3,960 ...
(from the article "Sao Francisco River") ...In this stretch the river receives its main left-bank tributaries-the Paracatu, Urucuia, Corrente, and Grande rivers-and its main right-bank tributaries-the Verde Grande, Paramirim, and Jacare.
in Mahayana ("Greater Vehicle") Buddhism, any of the perfections, or transcendental virtues, practiced by bodhisattvas ("Buddhas-to-be") in advanced stages of their path toward enlightenment. The six virtues are generosity (dana-paramita); ...
(from the article "memory abnormality") The term paramnesia was introduced by a German psychiatrist, Emil Kraepelin, in 1886 to denote errors of memory. He distinguished three main varieties; one he called simple memory deceptions, as ...
(from the article "Colombia") The distinctive paramo biome of the equatorial high mountains reaches its greatest development in Colombia. This alpine vegetation is characterized by tussock grasses, cushion plants, and the treelike frailejon (Espeletia), ...
(from the article "pseudomorph") ...(see also epitaxy). Alteration pseudomorphs may be formed in several ways: from a change in internal crystal structure without a change in chemical composition (these pseudomorphs are called paramorphs; e.g., ...
(from the article "Paramount Communications Inc.") American corporation that was acquired by Viacom Inc. (q.v.) in 1994.Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures CorporationThe company merged with Joseph E. Levine, ...
(from the article "Life Sciences") ...such as DNA instability or histone methylation (a chemical change in a chromosome protein). The pattern of non-Mendelian inheritance found by Rassoulzadegan and her fellow researchers was called paramutation and ...
(from the article "Euglena") ...cellulose wall, have a flexible pellicle (envelope) that allows changes in shape. Food, absorbed directly through the cell surface or produced by photosynthesis, is stored as a complex carbohydrate (paramylum). ...
(from the article "muscle") ...smooth, except for cardiac muscle, which is involuntary but striated. Obliquely striated muscle is found only in some invertebrate groups (the nematodes, annelids, and mollusks) and has the protein paramyosin ...
(from the article "virus") ...hemagglutinin (major antigen) and neuraminidase. The only viruses in this family are influenza viruses of 3 distinct antigenic types (A, B, and C).Enveloped virions varying in size from 150 ...
(from the article "virus") ...nonsegmented RNA and an endogenous RNA polymerase. The lipoprotein envelope contains 2 glycoprotein spikes designated hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) and fusion factor (F). The major genus is paramyxovirus and is composed of ...
(from the article "biblical literature") This section apparently combines various traditions of how the Israelites came into Palestine, and J, E (or JE), and P sources have been discerned in these chapters. The traditional "40 ...
city, capital of Entre Rios provincia (province), northeastern Argentina. It lies on the Parana River, opposite Santa Fe, with which it is connected by a subfluvial road ... [1 Related Articles]
estado (state) of southern Brazil, bounded to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the state of Santa Catarina, on the southwest by Argentina, on the west ...
(from the article "South America") ...the previous Paleozoic sutures along the western side of the continent. Crustal extension reactivated the inner part of the supercontinent as well, with an increase in subsidence in the Parnaiba ...
(species Araucaria angustifolia), an important evergreen timber conifer of the family Araucariaceae, native to the mountains of southern Brazil but widely cultivated elsewhere in South America. The Parana pine grows ... [2 Related Articles]
lava plateau, one of the world's largest, southern Brazil. It lies mostly in Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo estados (states), but it also spans parts of Santa Catarina ... [2 Related Articles]
river of South America, the second longest after the Amazon, rising on the plateau of southeast-central Brazil and flowing generally south to the point where, after a course of 3,032 ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Parana") ...stands on a bluff 60 to 100 feet (18 to 30 m) high on the left bank of the river. It is linked by rail and road to its port, ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The city is an episcopal see with a cathedral (1894) inspired by that of Barcelona; it is also the seat of the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana (1959) and the ...
port, southeastern Parana estado (state), southern Brazil, on Paranagua Bay. The city lies at the foot of the coastal Serra do Mar, 18 miles (29 km) from ...
south central Brazil, rising on the western slopes of the Serra da Mata da Corda and flowing west-southwestward for about 600 mi (1,000 km); it collects eight sizable tributaries along ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "European Southern Observatory") ESO operates at three sites in Chile-the La Silla Observatory, located about 600 km (370 miles) north of Santiago at an altitude of 2,400 metres (7,900 feet), the Very Large ...
river, rising south of Sao Paulo in the Serra do Paranapiacaba, southeastern Brazil, and flowing in a west-northwesterly direction for 560 mi (900 km) before entering the Parana River at ... [2 Related Articles]
city, central Luzon, Philippines, on the southeastern shore of Manila Bay. Its site was occupied by small vegetable farms until the mid-20th century, when expanding urbanization transformed the town into ...
(from the article "sinus") The air sinuses, four on each side, are cavities in the bones that adjoin the nose. They are outgrowths from the nasal cavity and retain their communications with it by ...
(from the article "cancer") ...10 percent of persons with cancer have signs and symptoms that are not directly related to the location of a tumour or its metastases. Effects that appear at a distance ...
the central theme of a group of psychotic disorders characterized by systematic delusions and of the nonpsychotic paranoid personality disorder. The word paranoia was used by the ancient Greeks, apparently ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Dali, Salvador") ...reality" of man's subconscious over his reason. To bring up images from his subconscious mind, Dali began to induce hallucinatory states in himself by a process he described as "paranoiac ...
(from the article "paranoia") In addition to the common persecutory type of paranoid reaction, a number of others have been described, most notably paranoid grandiosity, or delusions of grandeur (also known as megalomania), characterized ...
(from the article "personality disorder") There are many different types of personality disorders; they are classified according to the particular personality traits that are accentuated. Persons who have a paranoid personality disorder show a pervasive ...
(from the article "therapeutics") ...use of antipsychotics is schizophrenia, erroneously called split personality. This is a severe mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and sometimes bizarre behaviour. One form, paranoid schizophrenia, is marked by ...
(from the article "sensory reception, human") ...the more volatile constituents. The temporary anosmia (absence of sense of smell) following colds may be complete or partial; in the latter case, only the odours of certain substances are ...
(from the article "Cola dynasty") ...is difficult. Vijayalaya (reigned c. 850-870) began the occupation of the territory of the Pallavas, which was extended under Aditya I (reigned c. 870-907). Parantaka I (reigned 907-c. 953), known ...
(from the article "Average Capacity of the Braincase in Fossil Hominins") Broom's choice of the name Paranthropus (meaning "to the side of humans") reflects his view that this genus was not directly ancestral to later hominins, and it has long been ...
(from the article "Australopithecus") Paranthropus aethiopicus (2.7-2.3 mya) is the earliest of the so-called "robust" australopiths, a group that also includes P. robustus and P. boisei (described below). Robust refers to exaggerated features of ...
(from the article "Leakey, Mary Douglas") ...that lived about 25 million years ago. In 1959 at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, she discovered the skull of an early hominin (member of the human lineage) that her husband named ...
(from the article "Kromdraai") South African paleoanthropological site best known for its fossils of Paranthropus robustus. Kromdraai is a limestone cave that has occasionally had openings to the surface. The remains of hominins (members ...
(from the article "annelid") ...eversible and unarmed; body divided into distinct thorax and abdomen; gills arise dorsally from thoracic region; size, minute to 40 cm; examples of genera: Scoloplos,
(from the article "military technology") ...sloping earthen ramparts beyond. A further refinement was the sloping of the glacis, or forward face of the ramparts, in such a manner that it could be swept by cannon ...
(from the article "gable") ...structure, or gable end, usually has straight sides, follows the roof's slope, and is often bounded by the roof's overhanging eaves. If the gable end projects above the roof level ...
(from the article "mental disorder") Paraphilias, or sexual deviations, are defined as unusual fantasies, urges, or behaviours that are recurrent and sexually arousing. These urges must occur for at least six months and cause distress ...
in music, the appropriation of a phrase, melody, section, or entire piece for use in another, favoured especially during the Renaissance for masses and motets as well as for keyboard ...
(from the article "mathematics, philosophy of") The paraphrase nominalist view can be elucidated by returning to the sentence "4 is even." Paraphrase nominalists agree with Platonists that if this sentence is interpreted at face value-i.e., as ...
(from the article "folk dance") ...realm and made it an adapted dance; they refused to call anything a folk dance except an anonymously created dance performed in traditional settings. The Jankovic sisters coined the term ...
(from the article "nature, philosophy of") ...closer to birds than to lizards, but they were classified with lizards rather than birds on the basis of physical and ecological similarity. (Groups with such mixed ancestry are called ...
(from the article "fern") Approximately one-third of fern species have paraphyses of one type or another. These are sterile hairs or scales intermixed with the sporangia, and they are, like indusia, believed to perform ...
(from the article "Asia") ...designation are the Angaran (or East Siberian), Indian, and Arabian platforms. There are also several smaller platforms that were deformed to a greater extent than the larger units and are ...
paralysis of the legs and lower part of the body. Paraplegia often involves loss of sensation (of pain, temperature, vibration, and position) as well as loss of motion. It may ...
(from the article "gastropod") ...an adhesive disk. In pelagic gastropods, especially the heteropods and pteropods, the foot is a swimming organ. Many prosobranchs and some opisthobranchs have lateral projections of the foot called parapodia; ...
(from the article "positronium") ...hydrogen-like atom composed of an electron and a positron (rather than an electron and a proton) arising as a positron is slowed down in matter and captured by an electron. ...
(from the article "sweeper") any of the fishes of the genera Parapriacanthus or Pempheris, in the family Pempheridae (order Perciformes), all of which occur in marine or brackish waters in the Pacific, Atlantic, and ...
any of several types of events that cannot be accounted for by natural law or knowledge apparently acquired by other than usual sensory abilities. The discipline concerned with investigating such ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Agricultural chemicals") Paraquat and diquat, the bipyridylium compounds, are deadly if ingested. Skin contact or inhalation of a concentrate of paraquat can cause fatal lung damage. Because no specific antidote is known, ...
(from the article "reptile") ...that apparently lived in forested habitats. They are the Eureptilia (true reptiles), and their presence during this suggests that they were distinct from a more primitive group, the anapsids (or ...
(from the article "rhyme") ...behind it (trail / failure). Other types of rhyme include eye rhyme, in which syllables are identical in spelling but are pronounced differently (cough / slough), and pararhyme, first used ...
(from the article "dinosaur") ...expansions of the skull composed almost entirely of the nasal bones. In genera such as Corythosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Parasaurolophus (and a few ...
(from the article "evolution") ...they have only half as many chromosomes as the body (somatic) cells. But the number, size, and organization of chromosomes varies between species. The parasitic nematode Parascaris ...
