Some sources state that the group was organized in 1812 by four members of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Beta is published by various sources for particular industries and companies.

Qwara, or Qwareña ( called " Falashan " in some older sources ), was one of two Agaw dialects, spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel ( Ethiopian Jews ) of the Qwara area.

* Beta brasses, with 45 – 50 % zinc content, can only be worked hot, and are harder, stronger, and suitable for casting.

Beta blockers such as propranolol ( Inderal, Inderal LA, Innopran XL ) can help to control the heart rate, and intravenous steroids may be used to help support the circulation.

It can be found halfway between Gamma Lyrae and Beta Lyrae.

Others, such as Beta Colony and Komarr, can only be inhabited by people if they are gathered in cities under domes or arcologies with a controlled climate.

These calculations show that relatively near target stars ( Alpha PsA, Beta Pictoris ) can be seeded by milligrams of launched microbes ; while seeding the Rho Ophiochus star-forming cloud requires hundreds of kilograms of dispersed capsules.

Beta radiation from radioactive decay can be stopped with a few centimeters of plastic or a few millimeters of metal.

Beta plus decay can only happen inside nuclei when the absolute value of the binding energy of the daughter nucleus is higher than that of the mother nucleus.

Beta particles can be used to treat health conditions such as eye and bone cancer and are also used as tracers.

Beta particles are able to penetrate living matter to a certain extent and can change the structure of struck molecules.

Orbital periods can be less than an hour ( for AM CVn stars ), or a few days ( components of Beta Lyrae ), but also hundreds of thousands of years ( Proxima Centauri around Alpha Centauri AB ).

However, injuries that Hayata sustains are not transferred to Ultraman when Hayata activates the Beta Capsule, and Hayata can still be shown as wounded when Ultraman reverses the change, such as one episode when Hayata was knocked off a cliff and injured his left arm, after the fight he was shown with his arm in a sling, another episode had Hayata blinded by a monster attack but his eyes were restored at the end of the episode.

Only the Beta Capsule can trigger the physical transformation from Hayata to Ultraman.

Should Hayata use the Beta Capsule inside a building, Ultraman can choose to appear from within it or outside of it, even projecting himself during transformation through the specially-reinforced walls of Science Patrol Headquarters.

Even if unavailable directly, the complete and incomplete Beta function values can be calculated using functions commonly included in spreadsheet or Computer algebra systems.

These result from rearranging the formulae for the Beta distribution, and the incomplete beta and complete beta functions, which can also be defined as the ratio of the logs as above.

While VHS and Beta tapes have a break-off tab to protect recordings from erasure ( as in audio Compact Cassettes and, once broken, the cavity left by the missing tab must be covered or filled before the tape can be reused ), VCCs employ a more elegant solution: a switch on the tape edge can be turned to red to protect the recordings, and back to black / brown ( depending on the colour of the cassette housing ) to re-record.

** Beta particles ( electrons ) are more penetrating, but still can be absorbed by a few millimeters of aluminum.

However, Betacam SP tapes can be used without a problem in ED Beta VCRs, since the ED Beta format uses metal-formulated tape as well.

Beta blockers and other pharmacological agents that slow electrical conduction through the AV pathway ( such as digoxin ) should be avoided, because they can exacerbate the syndrome by blocking the heart's normal electrical pathway ( therefore favoring transmission through the pre-excitation pathway ).

Rheumatic fever is a systemic disease affecting the peri-arteriolar connective tissue and can occur after an untreated Group A Beta hemolytic streptococcal pharyngeal infection.

Beta blockers can cause hypotension both by slowing the heart rate and by decreasing the pumping ability of the heart muscle.

Beta and SMR training can be considered a more directly physiological approach, strengthening sensorimotor inhibition in the cortex and inhibiting alpha patterns, which slow metabolism.

Alpha Centauri, one of the closest stars to the Sun, has a high proper motion ; it will be a mere half-degree from Beta Centauri in approximately 4000 years.

Windows NT 3. 1 ( Microsoft marketing wanted Windows NT to appear to be a continuation of Windows 3. 1 ) arrived in Beta form to developers at the July 1992 Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco.

* 1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.

Beta Tucanae consists of a group of six stars that may be loosely gravitationally bound into a system.

Classical Cepheids, Type II Cepheids, RR Lyrae variables and Delta Scutis belong to the instability strip which is believed to be driven by Eddington pulsations in helium, while for the Beta Cepheids the pulsation mechanism is unknown.

Pi Beta Phi, the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after the Greek-letter fraternities of men, was founded on its campus in 1867.

In 1912, the Pi Beta Phi women's fraternity established a settlement school ( now the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts ) in Gatlinburg after a survey of the region found the town to be most in need of educational facilities.

Beta carbon nitride ( β-C < sub > 3 </ sub > N < sub > 4 </ sub >) is a material predicted to be harder than diamond.

he continues to be a critic of the current Frater Superior of the Order, Hymenaeus Beta.

Pi Beta Phi was the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after the Greek-letter fraternities of men.

One official historian of the society, William T. Hastings, and some others believe that the " S " and " P " on the badge, which stood for Societas Philosophiae, " Philosophical Society ", was the original name of the Society and that " Phi Beta Kappa " came only over time to be taken as the name of the society.

Beta Monocerotis is an impressive triple star system, the three stars forming a triangle which seems to be fixed.

Beta blockers are inexpensive, said to be relatively safe and, on one hand, seem to improve musicians ' performances on a technical level, while some say the performances may be perceived as " soulless and inauthentic ".

Beta blockers must not be used in the treatment of cocaine, amphetamine, or other alpha-adrenergic stimulant overdose.

Beta blockers are used in the prophylaxis of exertional angina by reducing the work the heart is allowed to perform below the level that would provoke an angina attack.

Beta blockers, typically used to treat high blood pressure, are a class of drugs that offset this effect, reducing rapid pulse associated with the sensation of palpitations, and decreasing tremor and anxiety.

Beta particles are also used in quality control to test the thickness of an item, such as paper, coming through a system of rollers.

Beta plus ( or positron ) decay of a radioactive tracer isotope is the source of the positrons used in positron emission tomography ( PET scan ).

Beta blockers ( e. g., carvedilol, propranolol, atenolol ) have a large body of evidence in morbidity and mortality benefits ( fewer symptoms, less disability and longer life ) and short-acting nitroglycerin medications have been used since 1879 for symptomatic relief of angina.

The first consumer-oriented PCM format used consumer video tape formats ( Beta and VHS ) as the storage medium.

Today Ge ' ez remains only as the main language used in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Catholic Church, and also the Beta Israel Jewish community.

Beta 3 was released on April 11, 2000, and this version marked the first appearance of its final version startup and shutdown sounds ( derived from Windows 2000 ), as the previous betas used Windows 98's startup and shutdown sounds.

He created both the Alpha and Beta tests ancestors to today's ASVAB, a multiple choice test, administered by the United States Military Entrance Processing Command, used to determine qualification for enlistment in the United States armed forces.

Beta is used in finance as a measure of investment portfolio risk.

The name Beta was used as a name during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season as Hurricane Beta.

Beta is often used to denote a variable in mathematics and physics, where it often has specific meanings for certain applications, such as representing beta radiation.

Beta blockers ( sometimes written as β-blockers ) or beta-adrenergic blocking agents, beta-adrenergic antagonists, beta-adrenoreceptor antagonists or beta antagonists, are a class of drugs used for various indications.

Beta blockers have also been used for:

The displacer is a special-purpose piston, used in Beta and Gamma type Stirling engines, to move the working gas back and forth between the hot and cold heat exchangers.

Beta ED also featured a luminance carrier deviation of 2. 5 MHz, as opposed to the 1. 2 MHz used in SuperBeta, improving contrast with reduced luminance noise.

Some species, like spinach ( Spinacia oleracea ) or forms of beet ( Beta vulgaris ) ( Beetroot, Chard ), are used as vegetables.