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  2. Prince Rupert's drop - Wikipedia

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    In a further study published in 2017, the team collaborated with Hillar Aben, a professor at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia using a transmission polariscope to measure the optical retardation of light from a red LED as it travelled through the glass drop, and used the data to construct the stress distribution throughout the drop ...

  3. Pro-drop language - Wikipedia

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    The connection between pro-drop languages and null anaphora relates to the fact that a dropped pronoun has referential properties, and so is crucially not a null dummy pronoun. Pro-drop is a problem when translating to a non-pro-drop language such as English, which requires the pronoun to be added, especially noticeable in machine translation. [2]

  4. Beck Depression Inventory - Wikipedia

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    According to Beck's publisher, 'When Beck began studying depression in the 1950s, the prevailing psychoanalytic theory attributed the syndrome to inverted hostility against the self.' [3] By contrast, the BDI was developed in a novel way for its time; by collating patients' verbatim descriptions of their symptoms and then using these to structure a scale which could reflect the intensity or ...

  5. Drop attack - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a drop attack. A drop attack is a sudden fall without loss of consciousness.Drop attacks stem from diverse mechanisms, including orthopedic causes (for example, leg weakness and knee instability), hemodynamic causes (for example, transient vertebrobasilar insufficiency, a type of interruption of blood flow to the brain), and neurologic causes (such as epileptic seizures or ...

  6. Boeing CH-47 Chinook - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem-rotor helicopter originally developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and now manufactured by Boeing Defense, Space & Security.The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters.

  7. One-drop rule - Wikipedia

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    The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms).

  8. Anthony Fantano - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Nicholas Fantano [5] (/ f æ n ˈ t æ n oʊ / fan-TAN-oh; born October 28, 1985) is an American music critic and internet personality who runs TheNeedleDrop, a YouTube channel with a tie-in website and Twitch [6] streaming channel.

  9. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Drop F ♯ /Drop G ♭ – F ♯-C ♯-F ♯-B-E-G ♯-C ♯ / G ♭-D ♭-G ♭-B-E-A ♭-D ♭ One and one half steps down from standard Drop A. Used by Deftones (on their Saturday Night Wrist album), Rivers of Nihil, Shokran, Volumes, Spiritbox, Erra (on some songs from Neon and ERRA), and Thornhill. Drop F – F-C-F-A ♯-D ♯-G-C / F-C-F ...