Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle ( two protons and two neutrons ) and thereby transforms ( or ' decays ') into an atom with a mass number 4 less and atomic number 2 less.

Many Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi-Urdu, also write the two phones differently and treat them as completely distinct phonemes: is written as ' प ' ( or ' پ '), while is written ' फ ' ( or ' پھ ') and so on.

When they are realized without much allophonic variation, a simple ( i. e. ' broad ') transcription is used.

::: stop smoking ( in the sense of putting out the cigarette one is smoking now ; literally ' leave from the tobacco ')

For example, in Eastern Armenian, aspiration is contrastive even word-finally so that տաք (' hot ') contrasts with տակ (' under ').

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

In modern Scottish Gaelic, Latha Buidhe Bealltainn or Là Buidhe Bealltainn (' the yellow day of Bealltain ') is used to describe the first day of May.

Lisbalting / Lios Bealtaine (' fort or enclosure of Bealtaine ') is located in Kilcash Parish, County Tipperary.

Glasheennabaultina (' the Bealtaine stream ') is the name of a stream joining the River Galey near Athea, County Limerick.

For instance, chapter 6 ( B '), which ought to follow chapter 7 ( A ') chronologically, is put in parallel with chapter 3 ( B ) because they both deal with the persecution of Daniel and his friends i. e. " God's people.

The Septuagint ( Greek or ' LXX ') version of this book is, in its arrangement and in other particulars, different from the Masoretic Hebrew.

A breviary ( from Latin brevis, ' short ' or ' concise ') is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ( i. e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians ' daily prayer ).

Banacek ( pronounced ' BAN-a-check ') is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974.

Christ () ( ancient Greek:, Christós, meaning ' anointed ') is a translation of the Hebrew מ ָ ש ִׁ יח ַ ( Māšîaḥ ), the Messiah, and is used as a title for Jesus in the New Testament.

Homeric nod ( sometimes heard as ' Even Homer nods ') is a continuity error.

Importantly, the Convention is legally binding ; countries that join it (' Parties ') are obliged to implement its provisions.

However, it is important to note that the patients in these studies received some form of spiritual healing ( i. e. not Christian Science ' treatment ') in addition to, not instead of, conventional medical care.

A carnivore () meaning ' meat eater ' ( Latin, carne meaning ' flesh ' and vorare meaning ' to devour ') is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.

Live coding ( sometimes known as ' interactive programming ', ' on-the-fly programming ', ' just in time programming ') is the name given to the process of writing software in realtime as part of a performance.

As mentioned above, this is usually broken down verbally as " slow, slow ; quick, quick " where the ' slows ' cover two beats ( or ' counts ') each and the ' quicks ' mark a single beat ( or ' count ') each.

In similar fashion, " telephone " is replaced by " dog " (= ' dog-and-bone '); " wife " by " trouble " (= ' trouble-and-strife '); " eyes " by " minces " (= ' mince pies '); " wig " by " syrup " (= ' syrup of figs ') and " feet " by " plates " (= ' plates of meat ').

He was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray ( also known as ' Prabodhankar ' Thackeray because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine named Prabodhan or ' Enlightenment ') Marathi family.

Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).

The area surrounding the castle ( known as the Yamanote ) consisted largely of daimyō ( feudal lords ') mansions, whose families lived in Edo as part of the sankin kōtai system ; the daimyō made journeys in alternating years to Edo, and used the mansions for their entourages.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

An eponymous bardic guild, known as the Homeridae ( sons of Homer ), or Homeristae (' Homerizers ') appears to have existed there, tracing descent from an ancestor of that name, or upholding their function as rhapsodes or " lay-stitchers " specialising in the recitation of Homeric poetry.

This process is formally called piloerection, derived from the Latin words ' pilus ' (' hair ') and ' erectio ' (' stiffening '), but is more commonly known as ' having goose bumps ' in humans.

Bakers in St Andrews would bake special cakes for their Hogmanay celebration ( known as ' Cake Day ') and distribute them to local children.

Prior to the introduction of the Latin term, incest was known in Old English as sibbleger ( from sibb ' kinship ' + leger ' to lie ') or mǣġhǣmed ( from mǣġ ' kin, parent ' + hǣmed ' sexual intercourse ') but in time, both words fell out of use.

' Balance of trade ' refers to the trade of both tangible ( physical ) objects as well as the trade in services – collectively known as exports and imports ( in other words, ' visibles plus services ') – while the ' balance of payments ' also includes transfers of Capital in the form of loans, investments in shares or direct investment in projects.

This was something that was known to every skipper at that time, or to the long-voyage pilot or kendtmand (' man who knows the way ') who sometimes went along on voyages ...

For instance, a major clause must display some structure that is the formal realization of a choice from the system of " voice ", i. e. it must be either " middle " or " effective ", where " effective " leads to the further choice of " operative " ( otherwise known as ' active ') or " receptive " ( otherwise known as " passive ").

An early supporter was the French linguist Albert Cuny — better known for his role in the development of the laryngeal theory — who published his Recherches sur le vocalisme, le consonantisme et la formation des racines en « nostratique », ancêtre de l ' indo-européen et du chamito-sémitique (' Researches on the Vocalism, Consonantism, and Formation of Roots in " Nostratic ", Ancestor of Indo-European and Hamito-Semitic ') in 1943.

Only the " fundamental rights " under the federal constitution apply to Puerto Rico like the Privileges and Immunities Clause ( U. S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1, also known as the ' Comity Clause ') that prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner, with regard to basic civil rights.

Illegal homemade liquor ( known as ' Mod ' or ' Bangla ') is widely consumed in rural areas.

Thus, sexual selection takes two major forms: intersexual selection ( also known as ' mate choice ' or ' female choice ') in which males compete with each other to be chosen by females ; and intrasexual selection ( also known as ' male – male competition ') in which members of the less limited sex ( typically males ) compete aggressively among themselves for access to the limiting sex.

Based on Mauss, for instance, Lévi-Strauss argued that kinship systems are based on the exchange of women between groups ( a position known as ' alliance theory ') as opposed to the ' descent ' based theory described by Edward Evans-Pritchard and Meyer Fortes.

' ' Do the little things in life ' (' Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd ') is today a very well known phrase in Welsh.

When the signal is multiplied by ( aka ' heterodyned with ') the BFO waveform, it shifts the signal to < u > and </ u > to, which is known as the beat frequency or image frequency.

The first organized form of Taoism, the Tianshi ( Celestial Masters ') school ( later known as Zhengyi school ), developed from the Five Pecks of Rice movement at the end of the 2nd century AD ; the latter had been founded by Zhang Daoling, who claimed that Laozi appeared to him in the year 142.

The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter allows the work to be linked with ( in the case of a library, ' used by ') a non -( L ) GPLed program, regardless of whether it is free software or proprietary software.

In general, Plato presumes that all nouns ( e. g., ' Beauty ') refer to real entities, whether sensible bodies or insensible Forms.

The website did not indicate whether the sets have been preserved in storage ( the industry term being ' fold-and-hold ') or if they have been destroyed.

*' Lobbying ' ( also ' Lobby ') is a form of advocacy with the intention of influencing decisions made by the government by individuals or more usually by Lobby groups ; it includes all attempts to influence legislators and officials, whether by other legislators, constituents, or organized groups.

In a cavern just before the exit stairway leading to a building on the rue Dareau ( former ' rue des Catacombes ') above, one could see an example of the Quarry Inspection's work in the rest of Paris's underground caverns: its roof is two 11-metre high domes of naturally degraded, but reinforced, rock ; the dates painted into the highest point of each bear witness to what year the work to the collapsing cavern ceiling was done, and whether it has degraded since.

" Hume shared with Locke the basic empiricist premise that it is only from life experiences ( whether their own or others ') that humans ' knowledge of the existence of anything outside of themselves can be ultimately derived, that they shall carry on doing what they are prompted to do by their emotional drives of varying kinds.

* For each ball, who bowled it and how many runs were scored from it, whether by the batsman with his bat (' off the bat ') or byes.

In particular, the question of whether genetic relatedness ( or ' blood ties ') must necessarily be present for social bonding and cooperation to be expressed has been the source of much confusion, partly due to thought experiments in Hamilton's early theoretical treatments ( see kin selection ).

2001 ) (" As a general proposition, we will look to the Uniform Commercial Code (' UCC ') to define whether a communication or series of communications rises to the level of a commercial offer for sale.

Brasil Telecom, the country's third largest fixed-line operator, and Opportunity, which controlled Brasil Telecom, hired Kroll to determine whether Telecom Italia competed with Brasil Telecom in 2000 in the latter's acquisition of the Brazilian fixed-line phone company Companhia Riograndense de Telecomunicoes (' CRT ') from Spain's Telefónica with the purpose of increasing the final price paid by Brasil Telecom for CRT, as both Opportunity and Telecom Italia were struggling for the control of Brasil Telecom.

These items are further diversified by whether or not they carry the " multi " trait: combat items flagged as " multi " may have their damage amplified via the player's rapid button pressing during combat, while those without the " multi " flag deal a set amount of damage based on the target's ( or targets ') stats.

Such a test ( known as the ' Bolam Test ') is used to determine whether a doctor is liable for medical malpractice.