(from the article "Zellweger syndrome") congenital disorder characterized by complete absence or reduction in the number of peroxisomes in cells. In the mid-1960s Swiss American pediatrician Hans Zellweger described the familial disorder among siblings; the ...
composer and conductor, was the composition teacher of the young Felix Mendelssohn. Before age 9 Mendelssohn became Zelter's pupil; and it was through Zelter's discovery of the almost forgotten score ...
(from the article "Habima") (Hebrew: "Stage"), Hebrew theatre company originally organized as Habima ha-'Ivrit (Hebrew: "the Hebrew Stage") in Bialystok, in Russian Poland, in 1912 by Nahum Zemach. The troupe traveled in 1913 to ...
(from the article "motion picture") ...style of cartooning associated with Disney was completely overtaken by artists using a diversity of contemporary graphic styles, often extremely elaborate. The work of Jiri Trnka and Karel Zeman exemplified ...
(from the article "1994: Best Director") Other NomineesOscar to "Forrest Gump" for best picture, 19941994: Best PictureChronicling 30 years in the life of mentally challenged ...
the Earth Mother of Baltic religion. Zemes mate represents the female aspect of nature and the source of all life-human, animal, and plant. Interacting with Dievs (the sky), Zemes mate ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Native American art") ...the area is in stone; and in this medium there are remarkably sophisticated, powerful works. Small tripointed carvings that were often human or zoomorphic in form represented the spirits (zemi) ...
(from the article "Taino") ...wood. A favourite form of recreation was a ball game played on rectangular courts. The Taino had an elaborate system of religious beliefs and rituals that involved the worship of ...
first Russian political party to openly advocate a policy of revolution; it had been preceded only by conspiratorial groups. Founded in 1876, the party two years later took its name ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Khemisset") town, north-central Morocco. The town is located between the imperial cities of Rabat and Meknes, at the edge of the Moroccan upland plateau. It is a market centre for the ...
Ethiopian religious figure who was the last of the Ethiopian Jewish community's traditional spiritual leaders to have the authority that accompanied recognition as high ques, a position achieved through religious ...
(from the article "Russia") ...the work of the zemstvos was hampered, and the village communes were brought under closer control in 1889 by the institution of the "land commandant" (zemsky nachalnik)-an ...
("assembly of the land"), in 16th- and 17th-century Russia, an advisory assembly convened by the tsar or the highest civil authority in power whenever necessary. It was generally composed of ... [6 Related Articles]
organ of rural self-government in the Russian Empire and Ukraine; established in 1864 to provide social and economic services, it became a significant liberal influence within imperial Russia. Zemstvos existed ... [6 Related Articles]
longtime president and financial director of United Fruit Company (name changed to United Brands Company in 1970), preeminent developer of agriculture in 13 nations of the American tropics, responsible for ...
(from Sanskrit dhyana, "meditation") important school of East Asian Buddhism that constitutes the mainstream monastic form of Mahayana Buddhism in China, Korea, and Vietnam and accounts for ... [36 Related Articles]
in Japanese floral art, modern style in which freedom of expression takes precedence over classic rules. Zen'ei ikebana was established in 1930 by a group of art critics and floral ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Senegal") The Fulani and Tukulor occupied the lower Senegal River valley in the 11th century. The name Senegal appears to be derived from that of the Zenaga Berbers of Mauritania and ...
(from the article "Ethiopia") Area: 1,127,127 sq km (435,186 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 76,512,000 | Capital: Addis Ababa | Chief of state: President Girma Wolde-Giyorgis | Head of government: Prime Minister Meles ...
(from the article "tragedy") An example from the No plays will illustrate these generalizations. In The Hoka Priests, by Zenchiku Ujinobu (1414-99), a son is confronted with Hamlet's problem-i.e., that of avenging the death ...
(from the article "art and architecture, Iranian") ...called by the Persians an apadana. Other features are the Tomb of Cyrus, a gabled stone building on a stepped plinth, and a Zoroastrian fire temple (Zendan), ...
(from the article "Takht-e Soleyman") Rising about 330 feet (100 metres) above the surrounding countryside, Zendan-e Soleyman is located about 2 miles (3 km) west of Takht-e Soleyman. The hill, which is a hollow cone, ...
(from the article "Imperial Chemical Industries PLC") ...paints, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibres (especially polyesters and nylon), and plastics. In 1993 ICI split off its drug, pesticide, and specialty chemical concerns into a new corporation named Zeneca Group PLC. ...
(from the article "semiconductor device") This voltage regulator is a p-n junction diode that has a precisely tailored impurity distribution to provide a well-defined breakdown voltage. It can be designed to have ...
(from the article "avalanche effect") ...of the solid so that a large current can flow through the material. This avalanche effect is responsible for the phenomenon of breakdown in insulators and in semiconductors, where it ...
Chinese administrator, the military leader most responsible for suppressing the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64)-thus staving off the collapse of China's imperial regime. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "China") ...storm of condemnation, the Chinese negotiator Chonghou was sentenced to death; the Russians considered this to be inhuman, and they stiffened their attitude. But the minister to Britain and France, ...
(from the article "Anhwei") ...several months later, after the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the Yangtze and based its administration in Wu-hu. In August 1952 the province was reunified under the leadership of Zeng ...
New York printer and journalist whose famous acquittal in a libel suit (1735) established the first important victory for freedom of the press in the English colonies of North America. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Hadid, Zaha") ...degree in mathematics. In 1972 she traveled to London to study at the Architectural Association, a major centre of progressive architectural thought during the 1970s. There she met the architects ...
(from the article "qing") ...standardized: its body was made uniformly flat, and it was shaped like an irregular chevron but with a curved rather than angular bottom edge. Each set had 8 to 24 ...
Chinese philosopher, disciple of Confucius, traditionally believed to be the author of the Daxue ("Great Learning"). In this classic, which became a part of the Liji ("Collection of Rituals") and ...
(from the article "launch vehicle") First launched in 1985, the Zenit launch vehicle was developed in Ukraine. The Zenit uses an RD-170 first-stage engine, considered to be one of the most efficient and reliable rocket ...
point on the celestial sphere directly above an observer on the Earth. The point 180° opposite the zenith, directly underfoot, is the nadir. Astronomical zenith is defined by gravity; i.e., ...
(from the article "Nagano") ...Nagano ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. It is the capital of the prefecture and is situated in the Nagano Basin. The city dates from the 12th-13th century and grew up ...
(from the article "Aspendus") ...(marketplace), and some rock-cut tombs of Phrygian design. A huge theatre, one of the finest in the world, is carved out of the northeast flank of the hill. It was ...
Greek thinker who founded the Stoic school of philosophy, which influenced the development of philosophical and ethical thought in Hellenistic and Roman times. [5 Related Articles]
(c. 495 BC-c. 430 BC), Greek philosopher and mathematician, whom Aristotle called the inventor of dialectic. He is especially known for his paradoxes that contributed to the development of logical ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "Epicureanism") ...of the 2nd century BC, mention must be made of Demetrius of Lacon, of whose works some fragments remain, and Apollodorus, who wrote more than 400 books. Much was also ...
(from the article "Italian literature") Giambattista Vico, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Apostolo Zeno, and the already mentioned Scipione Maffei were writers who reflected the awakening of historical consciousness in Italy. Muratori collected the primary sources for ...
Venetian admiral whose victory over the Genoese at Chioggia, near Venice, in 1380 was a turning point in the struggle between the two great maritime republics.
queen of the Roman colony of Palmyra, in present-day Syria, from 267 or 268 to 272. She conquered several of Rome's eastern provinces before she was subjugated by the emperor ... [2 Related Articles]
Greek grammarian and first superintendent (from c. 284 BC) of the library at Alexandria, noted for editions of Greek poets and especially for producing the first critical edition of Homer. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Palestine") ...of the economic and commercial life of Palestine in the mid-3rd century BC is, on the other hand, fuller and more reliable. It is drawn from the dossier of letters ...
(from the article "Judaism") ...constitution-namely, the Torah. Greek influence, however, was already apparent. Some of the 29 Greek cities of Palestine attained a high level of Hellenistic culture. The mid-3rd century-BCE Zenon papyri, which ...
(from the article "Shinran") In the last decade of his life, Shinran endured a particularly agonizing estrangement from his son Zenran (died 1292). Zenran had become embroiled in a dispute with Shinran's followers in ...
(Sept. 11, 1697), decisive military victory of Austrian forces over an Ottoman army at Zenta (now Senta, Yugos.) on the Tisa River during a war (1683-99) between the Ottoman Empire ... [1 Related Articles]
any member of a family of hydrated aluminosilicate minerals that contain alkali and alkaline-earth metals. The zeolites are noted for their lability toward ion-exchange and reversible dehydration. They have a ... [8 Related Articles]
one of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which formed at the lowest temperatures and pressures associated with regional metamorphism. It represents ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "clay mineral") The water adsorbed between layers or in structural channels may further be divided into zeolitic and bound waters. The latter is bound to exchangeable cations or directly to the clay ...
in the Eastern Orthodox church, a part of the Eucharistic liturgy in which the deacon pours a few drops of hot water (known as the zeon, or "living water") into ...
Israelite prophet, said to be the author of one of the shorter Old Testament prophetical books, who proclaimed the approaching divine judgment. The first verse of the Book of Zephaniah ... [2 Related Articles]
the ninth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets, collected in one book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon. The book consists of a ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "textile") ...for infants' and children's sweaters and for shawls; worsted knitting yarn, highly twisted and heavy, differing from worsted fabric by being soft instead of crisp, and suitable for sweaters; and ...
rigid airship of a type originally manufactured by Luftschiffsbau-Zeppelin and consisting of a cigar-shaped, trussed, and covered frame supported by internal gas cells. The first Zeppelin airship was designed by ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "aerospace industry") ...company founded by Ferdinand, Graf (count) von Zeppelin, in 1908 was still in operation, but it had not built an airship in more than half a century. In 1993 it ...
(from the article "annelid") ...prostomial appendages; no parapodial lobes; setae arise directly from body wall; all setae simple; minute; examples of genera: Ctenodrilus, Zeppilina.Sedentary; prostomium pointed and ...
(Hebrew: "Seeds"), the first of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was completed early in the 3rd century AD by ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "ba'al shem") in Judaism, title bestowed upon men who reputedly worked wonders and effected cures through secret knowledge of the ineffable names of God. Benjamin ben Zerah (11th century) was one of ...
mountain range in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, forming a part of the Gissar-Alay system. It extends for more than 230 miles (370 km) east-west parallel to the Turkistan Range between the ... [1 Related Articles]
river rising in the eastern Turkistan Range and flowing 545 miles (877 km) west through Tajikistan and southeastern Uzbekistan to disappear in the desert north of Charjew near the Amu ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Burkina Faso") ...General Lamizana dominated the nation's politics until November 1980, when a series of strikes launched by workers, teachers, and civil servants led to another coup, this time headed by Colonel ...
U.S. Pres. George W. Bush in 2002 tapped Algerian-born radiologist Elias Zerhouni to be the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest medical research facility. ...
(from the article "Algeria") The effect of the charter was limited, although by November no official details had been published. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni claimed that between 250 and 300 persons had submitted ...
town, Valais canton, southern Switzerland. It lies at the head of the Mattervisp Valley and at the foot of the Matterhorn (14,692 feet [4,478 m]), 23 miles (37 km) southeast ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "axiom of choice") The axiom of choice was first formulated in 1904 by the German mathematician Ernst Zermelo in order to prove the "well-ordering theorem" (every set can be given an order relationship, ...
(from the article "logic, history of") Independently of Russell and Whitehead's work, and more narrowly in the German mathematical tradition of Dedekind and Cantor, in 1908 Ernst Zermelo described axioms of set theory that, slightly modified, ...
Dutch scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the ... [1 Related Articles]
fighter aircraft, a single-seat, low-wing monoplane used with great effect by the Japanese during World War II. Designed by Horikoshi Jiro, it was the first carrier-based fighter capable of besting ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "mathematics") ...and so on. In fact, &babylonian1; could represent any power of 60. The context determined which power was intended. The Babylonians appear to have developed a placeholder symbol that functioned ...
(from the article "Paraguay") ...Official estimates of the rate of deforestation suggest that Paraguay is in danger of losing virtually all its forests by the middle of the 21st century. In 2004 the Paraguayan ...
(from the article "Caucasian languages") ...functional vowel alternation, or ablaut; different forms of a word root or word element appear either with a vowel (*e, *a, *o), called full grade, or without a vowel, called ...
(from the article "Bolivia") Despite the tension in several sectors, high commodity prices and the absence of crippling foreign-debt payments allowed Bolivia to register a measure of economic growth. Morales's Zero Malnutrition program, which ...
(from the article "matrix") A matrix O with all its elements 0 is called a zero matrix. A square matrix A with 1s on the main diagonal (upper left to lower right) and 0s ...
(from the article "nuclear strategy") ...marketable aim of matching the deployment of the SS-20, and in November 1981, at the start of negotiations on this issue, Reagan offered to eliminate NATO's INF if all SS-20s ...
(from the article "Davis, Kingsley") American sociologist and demographer who coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world ...
(from the article "training, transfer of") Basically three kinds of transfer can occur: positive, negative, and zero. The following examples from hypothetical experiments, purposely uncomplicated by distracting detail, illustrate each. Suppose a group of students learn ...
(from the article "star") ...sequence can be understood as a consequence of evolution. At the beginning of their lives as hydrogen-burning objects, stars define a nearly unique line in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram called the ...
(from the article "government budget") ...Jimmy Carter administration in the United States, although planning for a steep rise in expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP), also attempted to introduce the concept of ...
(from the article "Notable early nuclear reactors") ...is now Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Shortly after the end of World War II, the Canadian project succeeded in building a zero-power, natural uranium-fueled research reactor, the so-called ZEEP (Zero-Energy ...
(from the article "organometallic compound") The central metal in a neutral metal carbonyl, such as those described above, is assigned an oxidation state of zero, quite unlike the case in simple inorganic compounds in which ...
vibrational energy that molecules retain even at the absolute zero of temperature. Temperature in physics has been found to be a measure of the intensity of random molecular motion, and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "celestial mechanics") ...the velocity of the massless particle in this frame to its position. For given values of this constant it is possible to construct curves in the plane on which the ...
(from the article "telescope") ...better materials for mirrors have become available. Cer-Vit, for example, was used for the 4.2-metre William Herschel Telescope of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, and ...
(from the article "thermodynamics") The zeroth law of thermodynamics. When two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third system, the first two systems are in thermal equilibrium with each ...
(from the article "telecommunications media") ...as follows. Different reflection angles within the fibre core create different propagation paths for the light rays. Rays that travel nearest to the axis of the core propagate by what ...
As the violent struggle between Islamic fundamentalists and Algeria's military-dominated government continued in 1996, Pres. Liamine Zeroual unveiled proposals for constitutional reforms aimed at resolving his country's severe domestic crisis. ... [1 Related Articles]
governor of Judaea under whom the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem took place. Of Davidic origin, Zerubbabel is thought to have originally been a Babylonian Jew who returned ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "EDES") ...force that, bolstered by British support, constituted the only serious challenge to EAM-ELAS (q.v.) control of the resistance movement in occupied Greece during World War II. Led by Gen. Napoleon ...
(from the article "Montenegro") The Slav peoples were organized along tribal lines, each headed by a zupan (chieftain). In this part of the Adriatic littoral, from the time of the arrival ...
(from the article "eclipse") Zeta Aurigae is the prototype of a class of eclipsing binaries composed of a cool supergiant star and a hot blue star. Although the supergiant's atmosphere is large enough to ...
(from the article "star") ...Matter flowing outward from a star produces a stellar wind analogous to the solar wind, but one that is often much more extensive and violent. In the spectrum of certain ...
