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** Implosion: a fissile mass of either material ( U-235, Pu-239, or a combination ) is surrounded by high explosives that compress the mass, resulting in criticality.
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** Macroevolution: adaptive radiation — convergent evolution — extinction — mass extinction — fossil — taphonomy — geologic time — plate tectonics — continental drift — vicariance — Gondwana — Pangaea — endosymbiosis
** Techniques: electrophoresis — His tag — affinity chromatography — x-ray diffraction — Proteomics — mass spectrometry
** The breech refers to the mass of solid metal behind the bottom of the bore extending to the base of the breech and including the base ring ; it also generally refers to the end of the cannon opposite the muzzle, i. e., the location where the explosion of the gunpowder begins as opposed to the opening through which the pressurized gas escapes.
** Radio Maryja-a radio station that is centered around religious observances, such as mass, and prayer, in Polish.
** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.
** Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, kills thirteen neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become America's first single-episode mass murderer.
** The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes ( although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production ).
** In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia.
** Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
** Soviet Armed Forces suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
** The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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** Trichotomy: If two sets are given, then either they have the same cardinality, or one has a smaller cardinality than the other.
** Anomalous dynamics ( Random walk # Anomalous diffusion ), the stochastic motion of objects with mean squared displacement ( MSD ) that deviates from the relation for normal dynamics, MSD ~ t, where t is the time the process is seen ; anomalous dynamics are either faster than normal dynamics ( MSD > t ) or slower ( MSD < t )
** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.
** either by additional attributes ( such as the " type " attribute which indicates the MIME type of the external entity, or the " charset " attribute which indicates its encoding ),
** Moral relativism maintains that all moral judgments have their origins either in societal or in individual standards, and that no single objective standard exists by which one can assess the truth of a moral proposition.
** Optical solitons, An equilibrium solution for either an optical pulse ( temporal soliton ) or Spatial mode ( spatial soliton ) that does not change during propagation due to a balance between diffraction and the Kerr effect ( e. g. Self-phase modulation for temporal and Self-focusing for spatial solitons ).
** Lack of voting representation in either House of the U. S. Congress, as the US Constitution provides these rights only to full states.
** disruptive selection — competition favoring fishes at either extreme of body size and mouth size over those nearer the mean — coupled with:
** Italian Language and Literature, decided at national level and the same for all examinees: either a text comprehension and critique, or the writing of an essay
** Negative transivity if x < sup > not-p </ sup > y then for any third commodity z, either x < sup > not-p </ sup > z or z < sup > not-p </ sup > y or both.
** CISC — It becomes either a single instruction: add a, b, c, or more typically: move a, reg1 ; add reg1, b, c as most machines are limited to two memory operands.
** Polar circle, either of two circles of latitude marking the extreme southerly points ( northern hemisphere ) or northerly points ( southern hemisphere ) at which the sun may remain above or below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at some point during the year
** norepinephrine is both a neurotransmitter and a hormone ; abnormalities in either capacity may affect eating behavior.
** Detailed town maps of Rijnland / Citoplan ( note that on the overview maps, for enlargement one can often either select a box or a town and then a box )
** Shaomai ( 燒賣 siu maai ): Small steamed dumplings with either pork, prawns or both inside a thin wheat flour wrapper.
** North Belmont Elementary School ( graduates feed into either Belmont Middle School, Stanley Middle School or Mount Holly Middle School )
** Catawba Heights Elementary ( has a Belmont mailing address, but is actually within the Mount Holly city limits-graduates feed into either Belmont or Mount Holly Middle Schools )
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