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# Selection limits
A selection limit is a term from animal breeding and quantitative genetics that refers to a cessation of progress even when continued directional selection is being applied to a trait, such as body size. In other words, a breeder or scientist is using selective breeding (artificial selection) and ch... |
# United States of the West
The United States of the West is a political union satirically advocated by French writer, philosopher, social commentator, and self-proclaimed mediologist, Régis Debray (born 1940), in his short essay entitled, Empire 2.0: A Modest Proposal for a United States of the West by Xavier de C***.... |
# Purchasing Managers' Index
Purchasing managers' indexes (PMI) are economic indicators derived from monthly surveys of private sector companies.
The three principal producers of PMIs are S&P Global (from 2022 merger with IHS Markit), which produces PMIs for over 30 countries worldwide and developed the first service s... |
# Self-expandable metallic stent
A self-expandable metallic stent (or SEMS) is a metallic tube, or stent that holds open a structure in the gastrointestinal tract to allow the passage of food, chyme, stool, or other secretions related to digestion. Surgeons insert SEMS by endoscopy, inserting a fibre optic camera—eithe... |
# United States Customhouse and Post Office (St. Louis, Missouri)
The U.S. Custom House and Post Office is a court house at 815 Olive Street in downtown St. Louis.
It was designed by architects Alfred B. Mullett, William Appleton Potter, and James G. Hill, and was constructed between 1873 and 1884. Located at the inter... |
# Windows Security Log
The Security Log, in Microsoft Windows, is a log that contains records of login/logout activity or other security-related events specified by the system's audit policy. Auditing allows administrators to configure Windows to record operating system activity in the Security Log. The Security Log is... |
# United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation
The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation is a subcommittee within the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. The Subcommittee was formerly known as the Subcommittee on Aviation, Space and Securi... |
# Reading (legislature)
A reading of a bill is a stage of debate on the bill held by a general body of a legislature.
In the Westminster system, developed in the United Kingdom, there are generally three readings of a bill as it passes through the stages of becoming, or failing to become, legislation. Some of these re... |
# Utility maximization problem
Utility maximization was first developed by utilitarian philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In microeconomics, the utility maximization problem is the problem consumers face: "How should I spend my money in order to maximize my utility?" It is a type of optimal decision prob... |
# Second cabinet of Mirko Marjanović
The Second cabinet of Mirko Marjanović was elected on 24 March 1998, by the parliament of Serbia. The governing coalition was formed by Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Yugoslav Left (JUL), and Serbian Radical Party (SRS). After the signing of Kumanovo Agreement and the entry of NAT... |
# Reading v Attorney-General
Reading v Attorney-General [1951] AC 507; [1951] UKHL 1 is an English trusts law case, concerning constructive trusts.
## Facts
Mr Reading was stationed in Egypt as an army sergeant. Smugglers paid him to ride in their lorries, while they were doing their smuggling of illegal spirits (whis... |
# Sessão do Conselho de Estado
Sessão do Conselho de Estado (Session of the State Council) is an artwork of the genre historical painting made by Georgina de Albuquerque in 1922. It portrays the session that took place on 2 September 1822 of the State Council of Brazil, preceding Brazilian independence. The artwork is ... |
# Zarrinnaal
Zarrinnaal or Zarrin Naal (Kurdish: زاری ناڵ) is the name of a dynasty of Kurdish tribal chiefs and state officials belonging to the Zarrin Kafsh tribe and originated from Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province of Iran. Their heads with the title of Beyg, Beyk or Beg (lit."lord") were the Aghas of Senneh ("Masters... |
# Slad Brook
Slad Brook is a small river in Gloucestershire, England. It rises in woodland to the north of Down Hill, and to the south of the village of Sheepscombe. It heads in a southerly and south-westerly direction through open countryside until it reaches the north-easterly edge of Stroud. It is then culverted ben... |
# Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire
The Tale of Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire (also known as Setne II) is a Demotic Egyptian story attested on papyrus in Roman Egypt. Some argue that it is an answer to the biblical account about the Queen of Sheba testing Solomon with hard "questions" in 1 Kings 10:1.
Setne (loosely based on the... |
# Peres–Horodecki criterion
The Peres–Horodecki criterion is a necessary condition, for the joint density matrix {\displaystyle \rho } of two quantum mechanical systems {\displaystyle A} and {\displaystyle B}, to be separable. It is also called the PPT criterion, for positive partial transpose. In the 2×2 and 2×3 dimen... |
# Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India
Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, founded in 1961 by the Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs, for arranging, conducting and analysing the results of the demographic surveys of India including Census of India and Linguistic Survey of India. ... |
# Quantum non-equilibrium
Quantum non-equilibrium is a concept within stochastic formulations of the De Broglie–Bohm theory of quantum physics.
## Overview
In quantum mechanics, the Born rule states that the probability density of finding a system in a given state, when measured, is proportional to the square of the a... |
# Wood County Courthouse and Jail
The Wood County Courthouse and Jail, located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States, is Wood County's third courthouse. It was built after citizens decided to move the county seat from Perrysburg to Bowling Green. Ground was broken on November 28, 1893, and the cornerstone was laid on ... |
# Pump–probe microscopy
Pump–probe microscopy is a non-linear optical imaging modality used in femtochemistry to study chemical reactions. It generates high-contrast images from endogenous non-fluorescent targets. It has numerous applications, including materials science, medicine, and art restoration.
## Advantages
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