The NIFTY 50 is a benchmark Indian stock market index that represents the weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange.[1][2]

It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology network.

was a form of psychiatric treatment in which patients were repeatedly injected with large doses of insulin in order to produce daily comas over several weeks

It was one of a number of physical treatments introduced into psychiatry in the first four decades of the 20th century. These included the convulsive therapies (cardiazol/metrazol therapy and electroconvulsive therapy), deep sleep therapy, and psychosurgery. Insulin coma therapy and the convulsive therapies are collectively known as the shock therapies.

ndeed, tastes in Europe and the United States shifted away from Turkish tobacco and towards Virginia tobacco, during and after the First World War.

is a Portuguese state-owned banking corporation, and the largest bank in Portugal, established in Lisbon in 1876.[1]

Non-interest expenses were more than $16.57 billion in 2021, which gives backing to the fact that credit cards are incredibly profitable.15 All the promotion, advertising, and marketing that Capital One undertakes is nothing compared to how much money the company earns from those unassuming but powerful little cards. They contribute more than 62% of the company's business.6

t was cofounded by Lomonosov Moscow State University, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Shenzhen Municipal People's Government.

Credit cards make up more than 62% of Capital One's profits.

Hareketin kuramcısı ve isim babası Muzaffer İlhan Erdost'tur.[1] Edip Cansever, İlhan Berk, Cemal Süreya, Turgut Uyar, Sezai Karakoç, Ece Ayhan ve Ülkü Tamer, Tevfik Akdağ İkinci Yeni Şiir topluluğu şairlerindendir.

Garip akımının şiir anlayışına tepki olarak doğmuş ve büyük bir şair topluluğu tarafından benimsenmiştr.

Perry's primary goal was to force an end to Japan's 220-year-old policy of isolation and to open Japanese ports to American trade, through the use of gunboat diplomacy if necessary.

İkinci Yeni, Türk şiirinde 1950'li yıllarda ortaya çıkmış bir şiir hareketidir.

to the Tokugawa Shogunate involving two separate voyages by warships of the United States Navy

Lilly Endowment Inc., headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is one of the world's largest private philanthropic foundations and among the largest endowments in the United States. It was founded in 1937 by Josiah K. (J. K.) Lilly Sr. and his sons, Eli Jr. and Josiah Jr. (Joe), with an initial gift of Eli Lilly and Company stock valued at $280,000 USD ($4,616,759 in 2015 chained dollars).[4] As of 2020, its total assets were worth $21 billion.[5]

a work ethic concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes that diligence, discipline, and frugality[3] are a result of a person's subscription to the values espoused by the Protestant faith, particularly Calvinism.

It is a drive-by download computer program designed to provide access to a computer.

actors that influence brand value are sales, market share, market capitalization, awareness of a brand, products, popularity, image, etc.

This page lists the number of book titles published per country per year from various sources. According to UNESCO, this is an important index of standard of living, education, and of a country's self-awareness.[1] No standardised way to track the number of books published exists which can make it difficult to compare countries or track the industry as a whole.[2] One method is to track how many International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) are registered by each country.[2]

United States 2013 275,232 New titles and re-editions

Turkey 2019 75,667 New titles and re-editions ("Derlenen Kitap Sayısı")

New titles and re-editions ("Derlenen Kitap Sayısı")

France 2018 106,799

United Kingdom 2018 188,000

The mixed Maghrebi-Sephardic Jewish communities collapsed in the mid-20th century as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab countries, moving mostly to Israel, France, Canada and Venezuela

The Wirtschaftswunder (German: [ˈvɪʁtʃaftsˌvʊndɐ] (listen), "economic miracle"), also known as the Miracle on the Rhine, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II (adopting an ordoliberalism-based social market economy). The expression referring to this phenomenon was first used by The Times in 1950.[2]

Tempora is the codeword for a formerly-secret computer system that is used by the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). This system is used to buffer most Internet communications that are extracted from fibre-optic cables, so these can be processed and searched at a later time.[2] It was tested from 2008 and became operational in late 2011.[3]

Bulge bracket banks are the world's largest multi-national investment banks,[2] serving mostly large corporations, institutional investors and governments.

are ethnic Jews who had traditionally lived in the Maghreb region of North Africa (al-Maghrib, Arabic for "the west") under Arab rule during the Middle Ages.[1]

Bank of America Barclays Citigroup Deutsche Bank Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase Morgan Stanley UBS

Modern list, post-COVID[edit] As of 2020, the Corporate Finance Institute, a Canadian financial analyst certification organization, as well as Wall Street Oasis, an online investment banking and finance forum, listed the following investment banks as bulge bracket banks:[7][8] Bank of America Barclays Citigroup Credit Suisse Deutsche Bank Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase Morgan Stanley UBS

Since the rats could not detect the chemical, they were not able to employ a psychological procedure known as taste aversion conditioning, causing the rat to continuously ingest the lithium-paired saccharin solution

The area postrema acts to directly monitor the chemical status of the organism. Lesions of the area postrema are sometimes referred to as 'central vagotomy' because they eliminate the brain’s ability to monitor the physiological status of the body through its vagus nerve.[12] These lesions thus serve to prevent the detection of poisons and consequently prevent the body’s natural defenses from kicking in

Such roles of the area postrema include its detection of circulating hormones involved in vomiting, thirst, hunger, and blood pressure control.[1][5]

An ellipsis (anapodoton) of “if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain”, from an apocryphal story by Francis Bacon, perhaps adapted from an Ottoman Turkish proverb that makes no reference to Muhammad. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) show ▼

The world-famous Gouda cheese is not made in the city itself, but rather in the surrounding region

Admiral Fulvio Martini, later chief of SISMI (Italy's military secret service), declared that Mattei's plane had been shot down.[citation needed] In 1986, former Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani described the accident as a shooting, perhaps the first act of terrorism in Italy.[citation needed]

nder his direction, ENI negotiated important oil concessions in the Middle East as well as a significant trade agreement with the Soviet Union, which helped break the oligopoly of the "Seven Sisters" that dominated the mid-20th-century oil industry. He also introduced the principle whereby the country that owned exploited oil reserves received 75% of the profits.[1]

The institute was again closed down and sealed on the morning of 31 December 2016, per a declaration issued under Article 11 of the Turkish State of Emergency (OHAL).[6][7]

is a pharmaceutical company incorporated in Zug, Switzerland, with offices in New York City. The company started to do business in the US as Vyera Pharmaceuticals in September 2017.[2][3]

According to a 2001 TV documentary by Bernhard Pletschinger and Claus Bredenbrock, evidence was immediately destroyed at the crash site. Flight instruments were put into acid. On 25 October 1995, the Italian public service broadcaster RAI reported the exhumation of the human remains of Mattei and Bertuzzi. Metal debris deformed by an explosion was found in the bones. There is speculation that the fuse of an explosive device was triggered by the mechanism of the landing gear. In 1994, the investigations were reopened. In 1997, a metal indicator and a ring were further analyzed by Donato Firrao of the Polytechnic University of Turin and explosion tracks were found.[11] Based on this evidence, the episode was reclassified by the judge as homicide but with one or more perpetrators unknown.[citation needed]

Kurdish literature, language and culture. Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals such as Musa Anter, Yaşar Kaya, İsmail Beşikçi, Cemşid Bender, Feqî Huseyîn Sagniç,[1] Abdurrahman Dürre, İbrahim Gürbüz and Süleyman İmamoğlu were among the founding members.

It has published a Kurdish-Turkish dictionary (Büyük Türkçe-Kürtçe sözlük / Ferhanga Mezın Tırkî Kurdî and Büyük Kürtçe-Türkçe Sözlük / Ferhanga Mazın Kurdî Turkî) prepared by Zana Farqînî in 2004.[3] The institute has also re-published many of the classical works in Kurdish literature, including the works of Faqi Tayran.[4]

CEO Martin Shkreli faced immense criticism for his actions.[5] The company was named after Alan Turing, the computer scientist.

was a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response. Charlotte Gerson[2] considers him the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress.[need quotation to verify]

Dying in Paris at the age of 88, where he had relocated by 1869, le comte de Camondo (as he was known in France), according to his last wishes, was buried in his family vault in the Jewish cemetery in Hasköy, Constantinople. His funeral took place on 14 April 1873, and the Ottoman government held memorial services in his honor.

The library is designed to reduce computing power and memory use and to train large distributed models with better parallelism on existing computer hardware.[2][3]

uniting libertarians and paleoconservatives. I

His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams,[1] people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature.[2] He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.

hose traits (such as organs or behaviors) occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through evolution.

Sacks was appointed a CBE for services to medicine in the 2008 Birthday Honours.[4]

His numerous other best-selling books were mostly collections of case studies of people, including himself, with neurological disorders. He also published hundreds of articles (both peer-reviewed scientific articles and articles for a general audience), not only about neurological disorders but also insightful book reviews and articles about the history of science, natural history, and nature.

Further evidence for the South Asian origin of the Romanies came in the late 1990s. Researchers doing DNA analysis discovered that Romani populations carried large frequencies of particular Y chromosomes (inherited paternally) and mitochondrial DNA (inherited maternally) that otherwise exist only in populations from South Asia.

The school is also the oldest charity in the UK.[3]

Louis-Le-Grand's students, occasionally referred to as magnoludoviciens, regularly top national rankings for baccalauréat grades (high school), number of Concours général laureates and entry into the grandes écoles (preparatory classes).

It is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.[a]

who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated successfully from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century. Many other blackjack teams have been formed around the world with the goal of beating the casinos.

re used in synthetic biology to construct and assemble genes from nucleotides de novo. Unlike DNA synthesis in living cells, artificial gene synthesis does not require template DNA, allowing virtually any DNA sequence to be synthesized in the laboratory. It comprises two main steps, the first of which is solid-phase DNA synthesis, sometimes known as DNA printing.

In April 2005, Morgan Stanley announced that it would divest Discover Financial Services as an independent company within six months. By June, industry sources reported that Morgan Stanley was reassessing its plan to spin off Discover. In August, the company confirmed it would not sell Discover. However, on December 19, 2006, during a fourth quarter earnings report, Morgan Stanley CEO John J. Mack announced Discover would be spun off as a standalone publicly traded company by the end of August 2007, stating that both companies will be better positioned for growth and success as separate entities.[6] Ahead of schedule on June 30, 2007, Discover was spun off as an independent, publicly traded company.[7] It began trading on the NYSE for the first time on July 2 as DFS.

Musul-Kerkük kadar önemli olan ikinci konu, Kürtlük sorunudur. İngilizler orada (Kuzey Irak’ta y.n.) bir Kürt devleti kurmak istiyorlar. Bunu yaparlarsa, bu düşünce bizim sınırlarımız içindeki Kürtlere de yayılır. Bunu engellemek için sınırı güneyden geçirmek gerekir.”[29] Lozan sırasında ve sonrasında İngiliz sözcüleri bunu çağrıştıracak yorumlarda bulunmuşlardır. İngiltere’nin İstanbul Büyükelçilik görevlisi Kidston, 28 Kasım 1919’da Londra’ya gönderdiği raporda, “Kürtlere ne kadar güvenmesek de, onları kullanmamız çıkarlarımız gereğidir” diyordu.

Professional remains one of several watches qualified by NASA for spaceflight, and is still the only one so qualified for EVA.[5

Astronaut Walter Schirra was the first person to wear one in space in 1962 during his Mercury-Atlas 8 mission.[1] The

"Diyarbakır'ı aldıktan sonra hükûmetle haberleşecek ve şeriatı isteyecek ve kabulü halinde raiyyesi olacaktık. Benim maksadım bu dine bir hizmet etmekti.

"Benim ölümüm Allah ve Din için ise darağacında asılmama perva etmem" [25]

“Kürtlerin arkalarında büyük bir devlet olmadıkça varlıklarını sürdüremezler” diyor,

li Fethi Bey olayı isyan olarak tanımlamamıştı ve sıkıyönetimle durdurulacağına inanıyordu. Ancak, olayların hızla tırmanması karşısında Başbakan Ali Fethi Bey'in istifasını isteyen Mustafa Kemal Paşa, 3 Mart'ta İsmet Paşa'yı yeni bir hükûmet kurmakla görevlendirdi.

Şeyh Said'in yakalanışından sonra, ilk sorgusunda ve mahkeme sürecindeki ifadelerinde tüm bu süreç boyunca "kıyam" olarak nitelendirdiği hareketi, "şeriat düzeni kurmak" için gerçekleştirdiğini söylüyor.

Ayrıca Ankara ve Diyarbakır'da İstiklal Mahkemeleri kurulması kararlaştırıldı

Olayın başlangıcında Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) Paşa ciddiyeti anlayıp Heybeliada'da rahatsızlığı nedeniyle dinlenen İsmet (İnönü) Paşa'yı acilen Ankara'ya çağırdı.

"Doğuda din elden gidiyor bahanesiyle İngiliz destekli provokatif ama ciddi bir ayaklanmanın başladığını" s

21 Şubat'ta gelişmeler üzerine hükûmet doğu vilayetlerinde sıkıyönetim ilan etti.

Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası Erzurum Milletvekili Ziyaeddin Efendi, TBMM kürsüsünde, iktidardaki CHF’nin icraatlarına ağır eleştiriler yönelterek; “Yeniliğin işret (içki içme), dans, plaj sefasından başka bir şey ifade etmediğini, fuhuşun arttığını, Müslüman kadınların edeplerini kaybetme yolunda olduklarını, sarhoşluğun himaye, hatta teşvik olunduğunu, en önemlisi dinî duyguların rencide edildiğini, yeni rejimin sadece ahlaksızlık getirdiğini, rezil bir yönetimin memleketi çamurların içine sürüklediğini”[15] ilan ediyordu.

“Kurulduğu günden beri din-i mübini Ahmedi’nin [İslam] temellerini yıkmaya çalışan Türk Cumhuriyeti Reisi M. Kemal ve arkadaşlarının, Kur’an’ın ahkamına aykırı hareket ederek, Allah ve Peygamberi inkar ettikleri ve Halife-i İslam’ı sürdükleri için, gayri meşru olan bu idarenin yıkılmasının bütün İslamlar üzerinde farz olduğu, Cumhuriyetin başında bulunanların ve Cumhuriyete tabi olanların mal ve canlarının şeriat-ı garrayı Ahmediyye’ye [Muhammed'in şeriatına] göre helal olduğu…”[17] hususlarına yer veriliyordu.

“Medreseler kapatıldı. Din ve Vakıflar Bakanlığı kaldırıldı ve din mektepleri Millî Eğitim’e bağlandı. Gazetelerde birtakım dinsiz yazarlar dine hakaret etmeye, Peygamberimize dil uzatmaya cüret ediyorlar. Ben bugün elimden gelse, bizzat dövüşmeye başlar ve dinin yükseltilmesine gayret ederim.”[16]

Bu bildiride 'din uğruna savaşanların lideri' anlamına gelen mührünü kullandı ve herkesi din uğruna savaşa çağırdı. Başlangıçta isyan İslam şeriatının tesisi adına başlatılmış ise de sonradan Kürt istiklâl hareketine çevrilmiştir.[10]

TCF yetkililerinden Fethi Bey; “Terakkiperverler dindardır. Halk Fırkası dini batırıyor. Biz dini kurtaracağız ve muhafaza edeceğiz”[14]

Mustafa Kemal hükûmetinin din aleyhtarı ve totaliter (baskıcı) siyaset yürüttüğünü iddia etmiş ve bu nedenle 17 Kasım 1924’te Cumhuriyet tarihinin ilk muhalif partisi olan Terakkiperver Cumhuriyet Fırkası (TCF)’nın kuruluşunu ilan etmişlerdi.

Pixar RenderMan (formerly PhotoRealistic RenderMan)[1] is proprietary photorealistic 3D rendering software produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar uses RenderMan to render their in-house 3D animated movie productions and it is also available as a commercial product licensed to third parties. In 2015, a free non-commercial version of RenderMan became available.[2]

The Ishak Pasha Palace is one of the few examples of surviving historical Turkish palaces.[1]

Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi'nde merkezi yönetime karşı girişilen geniş çaplı Kürt ve Zaza[5][6][7] aşiretlerin destek verdiği Kürt milliyetçi[8] isyanı.

One of the biggest challenges for the animation team was creating visual effects (such as water and jelly), which led to the crashing and replacement of some of the studio's drives.[29]

On April 21, 2014, NIST withdrew Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft guidance on random number generators recommending "current users of Dual_EC_DRBG transition to one of the three remaining approved algorithms as quickly as possible."[12]

The palace was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 100 new lira banknote of 2005–2009.[4]

Michael Wertheimer, director of research at the NSA, wrote "With hindsight, NSA should have ceased supporting the Dual EC DRBG algorithm immediately after security researchers discovered the potential for a trapdoor. In truth, I can think of no better way to describe our failure to drop support for the Dual EC DRBG algorithm as anything other than regrettable."[34]

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

The Israeli Computer and IT Directorate (Hebrew: אגף התקשוב וההגנה בסביבת רשת, Agaf Ha-Tikshuv VeHaHagana BiSvivat Reshet) is the Israel Defense Forces body which charts the communication, wireless transmission, computerization, command and control over and defense of military and intelligence information in the IDF. The Directorate was created on March 3, 2003, on the basis of some functions previously held by the C4I Corps. The Directorate is also responsible for Cyber Defense in the IDF, a fact which has led to the name of the Directorate being changed to "Computer and IT Directorate" in May 2017.

algorithm that was presented as a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) using methods in elliptic curve cryptography.

that involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops

Since the Rolex movement was fully waterproof and had a reserve of two days of operation when inactive, police were able to reasonably infer the time of death.[74][75]

In general, Rolex has three watch lines: Oyster Perpetual, Professional and Cellini (the Cellini line is Rolex's line of "dress" watches).

By the start of World War II, Royal Air Force pilots were buying Rolex watches to replace their inferior standard-issue watches; however, when captured and sent to prisoner of war (POW) camps, their watches were confiscated

Rolex on Ronald Platt's wrist eventually led to the arrest of his murderer, Albert Johnson Walker—a financial planner who had fled from Canada when he was charged with 18 counts of fraud, theft, and money laundering. When the body was found in the English Channel in 1996 by a fisherman named John Coprik,[74] a Rolex wristwatch was the only identifiable object on the body

he offered to replace all watches that had been confiscated and not require payment until the end of the war, if the officers would write to Rolex and explain the circumstances of their loss and where they were being held.

In 1956, Rolex made a wristwatch with an automatically changing day and date on the dial in the Rolex Day-Date.[42]

While Rolex mostly produces mechanical watches, it also participated in development of the original quartz watch movements

while others use automatic movements, and some use an ETA movement. O. J. Simpson wore a counterfeit Rolex during his 1994 murder trial.[43][44]

Serial numbers were first introduced in 1926 and were issued sequentially, until 1954, when Rolex restarted from #999,999 to #0. In 1987, there was an addition of one letter to a 6-digit serial number and in 2010, to the present date Rolex introduced random serial numbers.[36]

To address this problem, in 1926 a third-party casemaker produced a waterproof and dustproof wristwatch for Rolex, giving it the name "Oyster"

It is said that "The power of the Crown is never more felt than when trying to negotiate space in a retail environment for the product of another brand".[26]

As a demonstration, Rolex submerged Oyster models in aquariums, which it displayed in the windows of its main points of sale.

In 1931, Rolex patented a self-winding mechanism called a Perpetual rotor, a semi-circular plate that relies on gravity to move freely. In turn, the Oyster watch became known as the Oyster Perpetual.[18]

Rolex manufactured trench watches that were issued to armies around the world.

After World War I, the company moved its base of operations to Geneva because of the unfavorable economy in the United Kingdom.

Wilsdorf wanted the brand name to be easily pronounceable in any language, and short enough to fit on the face of a watch.[4][14] He also thought that the name "Rolex" was onomatopoeic, sounding like a watch being wound.[4][14]

Most current Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the city where R. J. Reynolds was founded, is nicknamed "Camel City" because of the brand's popularity.[3]

It is not the first Bible to be published by the Watch Tower Society, but it is its first original translation of ancient Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Old Aramaic biblical texts.[14] Although commentators have said a scholarly effort went into the translation, critics have described it as "biased".[15]

As of December 31, 2021, there were 4,231 commercial banks in the U.S. insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) with US$22.2 trillion in assets.[1]

Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200, Yehida shmone -Matayim- "Unit eight - two hundred") is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. Military publications include references to Unit 8200 as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps, and it is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU).[1] It is subordinate to Aman, the military intelligence directorate.

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihinin ilk muhalefet partisidir. Mustafa Kemal Paşa'nın eski silah ve dava arkadaşları olan Kâzım Karabekir, Rauf (Orbay) Bey, Ali Fuat (Cebesoy) Paşa, Refet (Bele) Paşa ve Adnan (Adıvar) Bey’in öncülüğünde, 17 Kasım 1924’te kurulmuştur. Parti tüzüğünde cumhuriyet ilkesinin, liberalizmin ve demokrasinin benimsendiği belirtilirken aynı zamanda dini inançlara da saygılı olunduğu açıklanmıştır.

Max Planck named the constant kB the Boltzmann constant.[3]

As the wearer moves, the pendulum turns and spins the pinion at a very high speed - up to 100,000 rpm. This is coupled to a miniature electrical generator which charges a storage device which is a capacitor(s) or a rechargeable battery. A typical full charge will last between two weeks and six months.[citation needed]

eading the eyesDifferences in Predator-Prey Eye LocationsThe location of eyes on an animal is an adaptation that can give us a clue about whether the animal is apredator or prey animal. The skull of an animal shows us how the eyes are positioned based on thelocation of the eye sockets, or the holes in the skull where the eyes rest. The location of the eyes on askull determines how much an animal can see around them.Predators often have eyes located in the front of their skull. Eyes facing front give predators the ability tofocus on and target their prey. A coyote is an example of a predator. The picture below shows the front-facing eyes of the coyote. When we look at the coyote skull head-on, we can see that the eye sockets facefront.

L'École normale supérieure de Lyon (ou ENS de Lyon) est une grande école scientifique et littéraire française, l'une des quatre écoles normales supérieures.

by a group of 40 Orthodox Jews on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, each of whom paid 25 cents to set up a hospital dedicated to serving immigrant Jews living in the tenement slums of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Suikast girişimiyle elinden ve karnından yaralanan II. Ioannes Paulus olaydan sağ çıkmasına rağmen eski sağlığına kavuşamadı.

The ingredients include little or no milk, sugar, butter, or eggs, because the ingredients were then either expensive or hard to obtain.

a self-winding rotor mechanism[1] (as used in automatic mechanical watches) to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element

combination of lowlife and high tech",[1] featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay

The American interest in visual metaphor on the one hand, and the Swiss fascination with planning, fastidiousness, and control over technical execution on the other."[2]

Mines Paris also publishes a world university ranking based on the number of alumni holding the post of CEO in one of the 500 largest companies in the world: the Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities. The school is a member of the ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology) alliance.

known as "Satan II", is a Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) produced by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau since 2009.[

Mines Paris is distinguished for the outstanding performance of its research centers and the quality of its international partnerships with other prestigious universities in the world, which include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Harvard SEAS), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore (NUS), Novosibirsk State University, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and Tokyo Tech.[3]

Though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

It was initiated by Harvard University's George M. Church in 2005.[1][2][3] As of November 2017, more than 10,000 volunteers had joined the project. Volunteers were accepted initially if they were permanent residents of the US and were able to submit tissue and/or genetic samples. Later the project was expanded to other countries.

It is a network bringing people and information together, by coordinating information sharing with law enforcement agencies, regulators and other partners in the financial industry.[3]

Turkish, it was not deemed necessary anymore to replace all foreign loanwords in the language, a process that had been initiated before

Since 2016, participants of the PGP could choose to obtain their whole-genome sequenced performed for $999.[14] In the same year Complete Genomics contributed over 184 phased human genomes to the project.[15] In February 2018, the results were published of the first 56 Canadian participants who had their whole genome analyzed.[16] Several DNA mutations that would have been expected by expert consensus to affect health of the participants had not done so, indicating that getting health data from the human genome was difficult.[17]

The first language, in fact, came into being in this way: Prehistoric man, i.e., Turks in the most primitive stage, was so struck by the effects of the sun on life that he made of it a deity whence sprang all good and evil.

Turkish language was the language which all civilized languages derived from.

Her dem yeşil ve dev yapılı ağaçlardır. Oldukça kalın kabukları vardır. Genç sürgünleri önce kırmızı, sonra kahverengidir.

The theory counted on the approval of the first president of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who not only gave the theory official backing and material support[12] but was also an important contributor to its development.[1

is an American sociologist who studies the social causes of mental illness

Sister collegeCurrier House, HarvardQueens' College, Cambridge

Although there is no conclusive evidence, the scandal has created a serious change in the attitudes of the Greek public, most notably a dissatisfaction with both main political parties in Greece, New Democracy and Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and creating a "hole of authority" leading to a vicious circle of political instability.

American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

s a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age.

Any naive T cell is considered immature and, unlike activated or memory T cells, has not encountered its cognate antigen within the periphery. After this encounter, the naive T cell is considered a mature T cell.

it was the first Zionist settlement founded in the Land of Israel by the New Yishuv and the second Jewish farm settlement established in Ottoman Syria in the 19th century, after Petah Tikva. As of 2017, it was the fourth-largest city in Israel, with a population of 254,384.[2]

The city is a member of Forum 15, which is an association of fiscally autonomous cities in Israel that do not depend on national balancing or development grants.[3]

is a white separatist idea that has been popularized since the 1970s–80s by white nationalist, white supremacist, white separatist and neo-Nazi groups within the United States.

Zé Povinho is the cartoon character of a Portuguese everyman created in 1875 by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. He became first a symbol of the Portuguese working-class people, and eventually into the unofficial personification of Portugal.[1]

Hungarian-American[b] businessman and philanthropist.[8][9] As of March 2021[update], he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion,[10][11] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations,[12] of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. Forbes called him the "most generous giver" (in terms of percentage of net worth).[13]

Georgia Tech became the first university in the Deep South to desegregate without a court order

During this time the FBI used a malware-based "Network Investigative Technique" to hack into the web browsers of users accessing the site, thereby revealing their identities. The operation led to the arrest of 956 site users and five prison sentences.

the FBI continued for nearly two weeks to operate the website and thus distribute child pornography, i.e. exactly the same crime the bureau sought to stop

When it was shut down in March 2015, the site had over 215,000 users and hosted 23,000 sexually explicit images and videos of children as young as toddlers.

he FBI preferred to keep the NIT (network investigative technique) malware a secret for future investigations.[3][4][5]

The investigation led to the sentencing of Steven W. Chase, a 58-year-old from Florida who created the website, to 30 years in prison in May 2017. His two co-defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 20 years each earlier in 2017 for their involvement in Playpen.[1]

The website operated through a hidden service through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously

the FBI continued to run the website for another 13 days as part of Operation Pacifier.

2022 Turkish Wealth Fund bought %55 of the company, taken back from Oger Telekom.[9]

Portuguese explorer João Rodrigues Cabrilho explored the California coast for the first time.

Using this template {{LORD}} gives "LORD", the standard translation with small capitals for the Hebrew name for God (the Tetragrammaton, יהוה), transliterated as YHWH) or Jehovah (English pronunciation), as it is translated in the King James Bible and other English Bibles: the LORD. This name is a rendering of the distinctive personal name of the God of Israel.

There are specific practices that must be followed to properly maintain the litter and maximize the health and productivity of the flocks raised on it.

Following the American Revolutionary War, Portugal was the first neutral country to recognize the United States

Portuguese people have had a very long history in the United States, since 1634. The first documented Portuguese to live in colonial America was Mathias de Sousa, a Sephardic Jew

early Portuguese colonization of Brazil, as the main harbor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, known for its large scale production of sugar cane.[8]

The city was one of the host cities of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, Recife hosted the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 1950 FIFA World Cup. The city, despite having a higher crime rate than the southern region of Brazil, is considered the safest state capital in northeastern region. It has a much lower crime rate than other regional capitals, such as Salvador or São Luís. Despite that, crime rose 440% in 2015.[15]

poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and material used as bedding in poultry operations.

Critics have noted that its three main towers give it the impression of being three books (although the architects referred to them as "three sliding crystals").[6]

service-oriented, with a growing focus on tourism and foreign investment.

Before the arrival of Europeans, the Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited.

In 2013, the Cape Verdean government determined that it would thenceforth use the Portuguese name Cabo Verde for official purposes, including at the United Nations, even when speaking or writing in English.

In the weeks following Amazon's decision, Governor Cuomo phoned multiple Amazon executives and even Jeff Bezos, personally asking them to reconsider and guaranteeing them "support." The Partnership for New York City placed an open letter in The New York Times stating that Cuomo "will take personal responsibility for the project's state approval." The letter is signed by Hakeem Jeffries, Carolyn Maloney, Andrew D. Hamilton, David M. Solomon, David N. Dinkins, and Ajay Banga, among others.[95]

was uninhabited until the 15th century,

Amazon Director of Economic Development Mike Grella wrote on Twitter that the leaker responsible for informing the newspapers was violating a non-disclosure agreement.[61] Grella also criticized media outlets for speculating on the winning bid for HQ2 based on the travel patterns of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post.[62][63][64][65][66]

In 1951, Cape Verde was incorporated as an overseas department of Portugal, but its inhabitants continued to campaign for independence, which they achieved in 1975.

Amazon announced that HQ2 would be split into two locations, with 25,000 workers at each: National Landing in Arlington County, Virginia, and Long Island City in Queens, New York City.[5] Virginia would provide $573 million in tax breaks, $23 million in cash, and other incentives. New York planned to give Amazon tax breaks of at least $1.525 billion, cash grants of $325 million, and other incentives.

In February 2019, Cuomo called the cancellation the "greatest tragedy" he'd seen during his tenure as governor of New York.[98][99]

Amazon claimed that it intended to spend $5 billion on construction and that HQ2 would house 50,000 workers when completed.[3] More than 200 cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States eventually offered tax breaks, expedited construction approvals, promises of infrastructure improvements, new crime-reduction programs, and other incentives. On January 18, 2018, a shortlist of 20 finalists was announced,[4] after which the candidate localities continued to detail or expand their incentive packages.

the founder and the ex-chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

He was proposed as the candidate by the Liberal Democrat Party before the 2014 presidential elections, but failed to receive the support of 20 congressman required to be nominated.[5]

by organizing translator guides in 1974. Net Tourism became one of the largest establishments in the tourism sector of Turkey in a short time.[3]

Lugers can reach speeds of 140 km/h (87 mph). Austrian Manuel Pfister reached a top speed of 154 km/h (96 mph) on a track in Whistler, Canada, prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics.[2] Lugers compete against a timer in one of the most precisely timed sports in the world—to one thousandth of a second on artificial tracks.

Its best known brands are Costa, Ray-Ban, Persol, Oliver Peoples and Oakley.

On 13 September 2020, it was announced that Nvidia would buy Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion, subject to regulatory approval, with the latter acquiring a 10% share in Nvidia.[13][14][15] In February 2022, the two companies reported that the deal had collapsed due to regulatory hurdles; SoftBank subsequently announced that it planned to float Arm on the stock market by 2023.[16]

While ARM CPUs first appeared in the Acorn Archimedes, a desktop computer, today's systems include mostly embedded systems, including ARM CPUs used in virtually all smartphones.

William Paley and others used the watchmaker in his famous analogy to imply the existence of God (the teleological argument) . Richard Dawkins later applied this analogy in his book The Blind Watchmaker, arguing that evolution is blind in that it cannot look forward.

NATO watch straps, also known as "NATO Straps", were developed by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for wartime usage (DefStan 66-47[5]).

Aliyev, as a speaker of the parliament, constitutionally assumed presidential powers

but typically comprises the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, King's College London, the London School of Economics and University College London.[

In at least 10 government reports published from 2003 to 2015, federal officials predicted that the U.S. would experience a shortage of ventilators and other medical supplies were a large-scale infectious disease outbreak to occur.[4]

nited States' national repository of antibiotics, vaccines, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, and other critical medical supplies. Its website states:

President Elchibey invited Heydar Aliyev, former Soviet Politburo member and then head of Nakhchivan (and no relation to Elchibey, whose real surname was Aliyev), to Baku on 9 June 1993 for negotiations with Surat Huseynov.

was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. The unit’s estimated kills were between 200,000 and 300,000. It was based in the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China) and had active branch offices throughout China and Southeast Asia.

giving a chair of the Prime-Minister of the country to Huseynov.

further solidified his power by organizing impeachment hearings and holding a national referendum on 29 August 1993, which formally stripped Elchibey of the presidency.

During his one-year rule, Azerbaijani–Russian relations were damaged, with his politics being described in this regard as "Anti-Russian

During a visit to Turkey, he called for the downfall of the Iranian Islamic Republic, which prompted a member of the Iranian parliament to threaten retaliation against the Azeris.[17]

He was described as being "vehemently anti-Iranian" in his policies, this being due in part to their perception of an Iranian-Armenian alliance.

It has four sequels, Taxi 2, Taxi 3, Taxi 4 and Taxi 5 and one English-language remake, Taxi (2004

17 June 1992 until his overthrow in a coup d'état on 24 June 1993.

but he assumed the nickname of "Elçibəy" (Azerbaijani for the "noble messenger") upon his leadership of the Azerbaijani Popular Front in 1990.

The ease of use part stems also from the NSA Playset's motto: "If a 10 year old can't do it, it doesn't count!"[18][19][20][21]

He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus). The apparatus assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.

Name[22] Description[21] TWILIGHTVEGETABLE a boot image for GSM communication monitoring. LEVITICUS a hand held GSM frequency analyzer disguised as a Motorola phone; named after GENESIS. DRIZZLECHAIR a hard drive with all the needed tools to crack A5/1 including the rainbow tables. PORCUPINEMASQUERADE a passive Wi-Fi reconnaissance drone. KEYSWEEPER a keylogger in form of a USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM). SLOTSCREAMER a PCI hardware implant, which can access memory and IO. ADAPTERNOODLE a USB exploitation device. CHUKWAGON uses a pin on a computer's VGA port to attack via the I²C bus accessing the computer's operating system. TURNIPSCHOOL a hardware implant concealed in a USB cable which provides short range radio frequency communication capability to software running on the host computer. BLINKERCOUGH a hardware implant that is embedded in a VGA cable which allows data exfiltration. SAVIORBURST a hardware implant exploiting the JTAG interface for software application persistence; named after GODSURGE. FLUXBABBIT is replaced by SOLDERPEEK. CACTUSTUTU Portable system that enables wireless installation of Microsoft Windows exploits; covers NIGHTSTAND. TINYALAMO software that targets BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and allows keystroke surveillance (keylogger) and injection. CONGAFLOCK Radio frequency retroreflector intended for experimentation. Intended use would be the implantation into a cable and data exfiltration based on radio reflectivity of the device.(FLAMENCOFLOCK (PS/2), TANGOFLOCK (USB), SALSAFLOCK (VGA) are retroreflectors with specific interfaces to test data exfiltration.)

brachiocephalic (not comparable) (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the arm and the head

a project was started to implement the capabilities from the ANT catalog as open-source hardware and software.

Content[edit] The published catalog pages were written between 2008 and 2009. The price of the items ranged from free up to $250,000. Capabilities in the ANT catalog hide Page Code name Description[14] Unit price in US$[c] CANDYGRAM Tripwire device that emulates a GSM cellphone tower. 40,000 COTTONMOUTH-I Family of modified USB and Ethernet connectors that can be used to install Trojan horse software and work as wireless bridges, providing covert remote access to the target machine. COTTONMOUTH-I is a USB plug that uses TRINITY as digital core and HOWLERMONKEY as RF transceiver. 20,300 COTTONMOUTH-II Can be deployed in a USB socket (rather than plug), and, but requires further integration in the target machine to turn into a deployed system. 4,000 COTTONMOUTH-III Stacked Ethernet and USB plug 24,960 CROSSBEAM GSM communications module capable of collecting and compressing voice data 4,000 CTX4000 Continuous wave radar device that can "illuminate" a target system for recovery of "off net" information. N/A CYCLONE-HX9 GSM Base Station Router as a Network-In-a-Box 70,000[d] DEITYBOUNCE Technology that installs a backdoor software implant on Dell PowerEdge servers via the motherboard BIOS and RAID controller(s). 0 DROPOUTJEEP "A software implant for the Apple iPhone that utilizes modular mission applications to provide specific SIGINT functionality. This functionality includes the ability to remotely push/pull files from the device. SMS retrieval, contact list retrieval, voicemail, geolocation, hot mic, camera capture, cell tower location, etc. Command, control and data exfiltration can occur over SMS messaging or a GPRS data connection. All communications with the implant will be covert and encrypted." 0 EBSR Tri-band active GSM base station with internal 802.11/GPS/handset capability 40,000 ENTOURAGE Direction finding application for GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000 and FRS signals 70,000 FEEDTROUGH Software that can penetrate Juniper Networks firewalls allowing other NSA-deployed software to be installed on mainframe computers. N/A FIREWALK Device that looks identical to a standard RJ45 socket that allows data to be injected, or monitored and transmitted via radio technology. using the HOWLERMONKEY RF transceiver. It can for instance create a VPN to the target computer. 10,740 GENESIS GSM handset with added software-defined radio features to record the radio frequency spectrum 15,000 GODSURGE Software implant for a JTAG bus device named FLUXBABBITT which is added to Dell PowerEdge servers during interdiction. GODSURGE installs an implant upon system boot-up using the FLUXBABBITT JTAG interface to the Xeon series CPU. 500[e] GINSU Technology that uses a PCI bus device in a computer, and can reinstall itself upon system boot-up. 0 GOPHERSET GSM software that uses a phone's SIM card's API (SIM Toolkit or STK) to control the phone through remotely sent commands. 0 GOURMETTROUGH User-configurable persistence implant for certain Juniper Networks firewalls. 0 HALLUXWATER Back door exploit for Huawei Eudemon firewalls. N/A HEADWATER Persistent backdoor technology that can install spyware using a quantum insert capable of infecting spyware at a packet level on Huawei routers. N/A HOWLERMONKEY A RF transceiver that makes it possible (in conjunction with digital processors and various implanting methods) to extract data from systems or allow them to be controlled remotely. 750[f] IRATEMONK Technology that can infiltrate the firmware of hard drives manufactured by Maxtor, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. 0 IRONCHEF Technology that can "infect" networks by installing itself in a computer I/O BIOS. IRONCHEF includes also "Straitbizarre" and "Unitedrake" which have been linked to the spy software REGIN.[15] 0 JUNIORMINT Implant based on an ARM9 core and an FPGA. N/A JETPLOW Firmware that can be implanted to create a permanent backdoor in a Cisco PIX series and ASA firewalls. 0 LOUDAUTO Audio-based RF retro-reflector listening device. 30 MAESTRO-II Multi-chip module approximately the size of a dime that serves as the hardware core of several other products. The module contains a 66 MHz ARM7 processor, 4 MB of flash, 8 MB of RAM, and a FPGA with 500,000 gates. It replaces the previous generation modules which were based on the HC12 microcontroller. 3,000[g] MONKEYCALENDAR Software that transmits a mobile phone's location by hidden text message. 0 NEBULA Multi-protocol network-in-a-box system. 250,000 NIGHTSTAND Portable system that installs Microsoft Windows exploits from a distance of up to eight miles over a wireless connection. N/A[h] NIGHTWATCH Portable computer used to reconstruct and display video data from VAGRANT signals; used in conjunction with a radar source like the CTX4000 to illuminate the target in order to receive data from it. N/A PICASSO Software that can collect mobile phone location data, call metadata, access the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on nearby conversations. 2,000 PHOTOANGLO A joint NSA/GCHQ project to develop a radar system to replace CTX4000. 40,000 RAGEMASTER A concealed device that taps the video signal from a target's computer's VGA signal output so the NSA can see what is on a targeted desktop monitor. It is powered by a remote radar and responds by modulating the VGA red signal (which is also sent out most DVI ports) into the RF signal it re-radiates; this method of transmission is codenamed VAGRANT. RAGEMASTER is usually installed/concealed in the ferrite choke of the target cable. The original documents are dated 2008-07-24. Several receiver/demodulating devices are available, e.g. NIGHTWATCH. 30 SCHOOLMONTANA Software that makes DNT[i] implants persistent on JUNOS-based (FreeBSD-variant) J-series routers/firewalls. N/A SIERRAMONTANA Software that makes DNT implants persistent on JUNOS-based M-series routers/firewalls. N/A STUCCOMONTANA Software that makes DNT implants persistent on JUNOS-based T-series routers/firewalls. N/A SOMBERKNAVE Software that can be implanted on a Windows XP system allowing it to be remotely controlled from NSA headquarters. 50,000 SOUFFLETROUGH BIOS injection software that can compromise Juniper Networks SSG300 and SSG500 series firewalls. 0 SPARROW II A small computer intended to be used for WLAN collection, including from UAVs. Hardware: IBM Power PC 405GPR processor, 64 MB SDRAM, 16 MB of built-inflash, 4 mini PCI slots, CompactFlash slot, and 802.11 B/G hardware. Running Linux 2.4 and the BLINDDATE software suite. Unit price (2008): $6K. 6,000 SURLYSPAWN Keystroke monitor technology that can be used on remote computers that are not internet connected. 30 SWAP Technology that can reflash the BIOS of multiprocessor systems that run FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, or Windows. 0 TAWDRYYARD Radio frequency retroreflector to provide location information. 30 TOTECHASER Windows CE implant for extracting call logs, contact lists and other information. N/A TOTEGHOSTLY Software that can be implanted on a Windows mobile phone allowing full remote control. 0 TRINITY Multi-chip module using a 180 MHz ARM9 processor, 4 MB of flash, 96 MB of SDRAM, and a FPGA with 1 million gates. Smaller than a penny. 6,250[j] TYPHON HX Network-in-a-box for a GSM network with signaling and call control. N/A WATERWITCH A portable "finishing tool" that allows the operator to find the precise location of a nearby mobile phone. N/A WISTFULTOLL Plugin for collecting information from targets using Windows Management Instrumentation 0 Follow-up developments