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The Silkworm was developed at the Institute of Mechanics under Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist who did his graduate studies at MIT and Caltech, before being deported by the United States in 1955 after being suspected of Communist ties.
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The full genome of the silkworm was published in 2008 by the International Silkworm Genome Consortium.
It was published in 2008 by the International Silkworm Genome Consortium.
It was struck by a Silkworm missile off Kuwait on October 16, 1987, wounding 18 crew members and seriously damaging the ship.
Initial reports suggested the cause was a malfunctioning U. S. cruise missile, but later reports focused on an Iraqi Silkworm missile as being responsible.
The guidance package was assembled by cannibalizing gyroscopes from the Chinese Silkworm cruise missile.
SFQ-1 was an unarmed test vehicle deriative of the Silkworm missile family.
Although still a member of Silkworm missile, the developer considers the missile was different enough to be a listed as a separate category of its own due to the amount of new technologies adopted.
A book about this scientist's life was written by Iris Chang, entitled Thread of the Silkworm.
The Silkworm gained fame in the 1980s when it was used by both sides in the Iran – Iraq War ; both countries were supplied by China.
In October 1987, Kuwait's Sea Island off shore oil terminal was hit by an Iranian Silkworm which was observed to have originated from the Faw peninsula.
In December 1987, another Iranian Silkworm was fired at the terminal, but it struck a decoy barge instead.
On February 25, 1991 a shore-based launcher fired two Silkworm missiles at the USS Missouri ( BB-63 ) which was in company with the USS Jarrett ( FFG-33 ) and HMS Gloucester.
During the 2006 Lebanon War, it was initially reported that Hezbollah guerillas fired a Silkworm missile at an Israeli warship off the shores of Lebanon.
A book about this scientist's life was written by Iris Chang, entitled Thread of the Silkworm.
One of two Iran ian oil platforms set ablaze after shelling by American destroyers. On 15 October, the reflagged U. S. tanker Sea Isle City was struck by an Iranian Silkworm missile while at anchor near the oil terminal outside Kuwait City.
Chinese authorities do not comment on allegations that Lai's Yuanhua group was also a conduit for clandestine military shipments, such as Silkworm missiles.
The first generation of Fabric OS was developed on top of a VxWorks kernel and was mainly used in the Brocade Silkworm 2000 and first 3000 series on Intel i960.
Silkworm and developed
China acquired the design in 1958 and created at least four versions: the CSS-N-1 Scrubbrush and CSS-N-2 versions were developed for ship-launched operation, while the CSS-C-2 Silkworm and CSS-C-3 Seersucker were used for coastal defence.
Silkworm and at
Silkworm breeding is aimed at the overall improvement of silkworm from a commercial point of view.
Silkworm missile stored at Umm Qasr in Iraq.
During the 2003 Gulf War, Iraq used the Silkworm as a surface to surface missile by firing at least two of them at the coalition positions in Kuwait.
Silkworm breeding, formerly a prosperous industry, had decayed, despite the encouragement of a state farm at New Marghelan.
Silkworm and Institute
Zhenjiang is home to the Silkworm Raising Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science of China.
There are seven scientific research institutions: Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Clinical Medicine Institute, Pre-clinical Medicine Institute, Ophthalmology Institute, Birth Control Institute, Psychological Medicine and Neurology Institute, and Silkworm Research Institute.
Silkworm and Chinese
After the Gulf War, United Arab Emirates ordered 30 of these shore-based version for coastal defense, and accordingly to Jane's Defence Weekly, these missiles are referred by the general name Silkworm missiles, but domestic Chinese sources have claimed that these were XW-41s, though there are reports claiming these missiles are other models of Silkworm series.
* P-15 Termit ( SS-N-2 " Styx ")-ship-launched cruise missile ( the basis for the Chinese HY-2 Silkworm missile ), 1955
Silkworm and by
Silkworm larvae produce the first type if cultivated in habitats with fresh mulberry leaves for consumption, while Tussah silk is produced by silkworms feeding purely on oak leaves.
* Developer ( album ), the fifth album by Indie rock band Silkworm
* The Silkworm ; Translation by Samuel Pullein
EP by Silkworm ( 2007 )-guitar on " Spanish Harlem Incident ( live )"
He subsequently released early albums and singles by notable bands like The Presidents of the United States of America, The Melvins, Built to Spill, 7 Year Bitch, The Gits, Silkworm and Hammerbox.
Silkworm and after
In mid-October, three days after an Iranian Silkworm missile hit the tanker Sea Isle City near the oil terminal outside Kuwait City.
Silkworm larvae are fed mulberry leaves, and, after the fourth moult, climb a twig placed near them and spin their silken cocoons.
Silkworm and .
Silkworm is one of the few organisms wherein the principles of genetics and breeding were applied to harvest maximum output.
* I. Chang, Thread of the Silkworm.
Silkworm Books, pp. 118 – 127 source records the history of Setthathirath as a ruler of both Lan Chang and Chiang Mai
The HY-1 and HY-2 received the NATO reporting name Silkworm.
The HY-1 received two separate NATO reporting name, the CSS-N-2 Safflower for the ship to ship version and the CSSC-2 Silkworm for the land based coastal defense variant.
However, due to the availability of more advanced anti-ship missile with similar range, such as the C-602, the future of XW-41, like others in the Silkworm missile family, is uncertain despite its successful trials.
Upgraded version of C-601 and other earlier models of the air-to-surface missiles of Silkworm family.
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Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.
A prototype which fulfills the requirements was developed and thoroughly tested.
While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.
He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.
A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.
Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.
Together they also developed a new form of voltaic cell in which the wooden trough was replaced by one of copper, thereby producing stronger currents.
Of interest is a recent announcement by Du Pont's Polychemicals Dept. of a new methyl methacrylate monomer designated as Monocite H 100, which was developed specifically for production of cast acrylic sheets for the sign and lighting industry.
In September, 1958, the patient developed generalized weakness and fatigue which was concurrent with exacerbation of his anemia ; ;
The same system, with minor modifications, was developed in Ruanda-Urundi under Belgian administration.
An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.
Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.
Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.
Much which was in embryo in 1000 had become reasonably well developed by 800.
Greek civilization was swirling toward its great revolution, in which the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook were suddenly to break forth.
Hardy's two productive decades were separated by forty years, yet between them he developed only in that he became more steadily himself -- it was a narrowing, not an expanding process.
What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.
the verse of Beowulf or of The Iliad and The Odyssey was not easy to create but was not impossible for poets who had developed their talents perforce in earning a livelihood.
The major contributor was a shopping center with houses being added to the system as the subdivision developed.
special equipment required for registering respiration and for recording the contraction of smooth muscles under various conditions was developed by the Instruments Section ( Victor Jackman, W. C. Barnes, J. F. Reiss ) ; ;
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