It finished when the universe was about three minutes old and its temperature dropped below that at which nuclear fusion could occur.

Because the sporophyte is the product of the fusion of two haploid gametes, its cells are diploid, containing two sets of chromosomes.

This helium-4 binding energy also accounts for its commonality as a product in both nuclear fusion and radioactive decay.

" Some critics argue that " Ahab's pursuit of the whale, which they suggest can be associated with the feminine in its shape, mystery, and in its naturalness, represents the ultimate fusion of the epistemological and sexual quest.

The rock music " scene " in India is small compared to the filmi or fusion musicality " scenes " but as of recent years has come into its own, achieving a cult status of sorts.

Iron's very common presence in rocky planets like Earth is due to its abundant production as a result of fusion in high-mass stars, where the production of nickel-56 ( which decays to the most common isotope of iron ) is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway and Charleston.

The Sun is a main-sequence star, and thus generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium.

The area that the Odyssey² may be best remembered for was its pioneering fusion of board and video games: The Master Strategy Series.

A planet () is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

The ability of the retrovirus to bind to its target host cell using specific cell-surface receptors is given by the surface component ( SU ) of the env, while the ability of the retrovirus to enter the cell via membrane fusion is imparted by the membrane-anchored trans-membrane component ( TM ).

For at least a portion of its life, a star shines due to thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in its core, releasing energy that traverses the star's interior and then radiates into outer space.

Alternatively a white dwarf star may accumulate sufficient material from a stellar companion ( either through accretion or via a merger ) to raise its core temperature enough to ignite carbon fusion, at which point it undergoes runaway nuclear fusion, completely disrupting it.

Nuclear fusion powers a star for most of its life.

Religion is an expression of our collective consciousness, which is the fusion of all of our individual consciousnesses, which then creates a reality of its own.

The fusion of the radius and ulna prevents an ungulate from rotating its forelimb.

Receptor binding as well as membrane fusion are catalyzed by the protein E, which changes its conformation at low pH, which causes a rearrangement of the 90 homodimers to 60 homotrimers.

A neutron bomb is a fission-fusion thermonuclear weapon ( hydrogen bomb ) in which the burst of neutrons generated by a fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components.

The site was already home to several University of California Radiation Laboratory projects that were too large for its location in the hills above the Berkeley campus, including one of the first experiments in the magnetic approach to confined thermonuclear reactions ( i. e. fusion ).

The company developed the inaugural entry in its Resident Evil survival horror series in 1996.

In addition to R-rated sex comedies and horror films, cheerleaders became a staple of the adult film industry, starting with Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) and its four sequels.

The film has reached cult status for its mix of horror, vampirism and seduction with lesbian overtones.

One columnist stated in April 1981 that " the microcomputer industry abounds with horror stories describing the way Commodore treats its dealers and its customers.

Somewhat superior to the run-of-the-mill exploitation films being turned out at that time, the film recouped its shoestring expenses and went on to become a minor cult film among horror buffs.

From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962 it specialized in naturalistic horror shows.

form a sub-branch of the genre called Grande Dame Guignol for its use of aging A-list actresses in sensational horror films.

It not only evokes the atmosphere of horror and dread, but also portrays the deterioration of its world.

The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by The Hunger, a 1983 vampire film, which starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon.

Rouben Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Paramount, 1931 ), remembered for its use of color filters to create Jekyll's transformation before the camera, Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum ( Warner Brothers, 1933 ), and Island of Lost Souls ( Paramount, 1932 ) were all important horror films.

In the case of some horror films from Japan, such as Godzilla ( 1954 ) and its sequels, mutation from the effects of nuclear radiation.

Candyman, for example, examined the link between an invented urban legend and the realistic horror of the racism that produced its villain.

The horror movie soon continued its search for new and effective frights.

To re-connect with its audience, horror became more self-mockingly ironic and outright parodic, especially in the latter half of the 1990s.

T. S. Eliot's use of a quotation from Heart of Darkness —" Mistah Kurtz, he dead "— as an epigraph to the original manuscript of his poem The Hollow Men contrasted its dark horror with the presumed " light of civilization ," and suggested the ambiguity of both the dark motives of civilization and the freedom of barbarism, as well as the " spiritual darkness " of several characters in Heart of Darkness.

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers / readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

Supernatural horror has its roots in folklore and religious traditions, focusing on death, the afterlife, evil, the demonic and the principle of evil embodied in the Devil.

Provo closed his review with a warning for potential buyers: he said that players could appreciate Kid Icarus for its " straightforward gameplay and challenging level layouts ", but might " find nothing special in the gameplay and recoil in horror at the unflinching difficulty ".

Von Trier's next feature film was a horror movie, Antichrist, about " a grieving couple who retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping a return to Eden will repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage ; but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse ".

Among his producing credits are the horror film Hostel ( which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction ), the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot ( for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer, although he was no longer associated with the film after its 2009 release.

For example, Syfy ( distributed via cable and satellite television in the United States ) currently devotes most its air time to horror films with very few science fiction titles.

In Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of Redneck Cinema, Scott Von Doviak commended its effective use of daylight shots, unusual among horror films, such as the sight of a corpse draped over a tombstone in the opening sequence.

It is a work of " cataclysmic terror ", in the words of horror novelist Stephen King, who declared, " I would happily testify to its redeeming social merit in any court in the country.