A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 structural formula ... Stumpf, Johannes structural formula (from the article "chemical formula") Structural formulas identify the location of chemical bonds between the atoms of a molecule. A ... structural functionalism (from the article "social structure") A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, a British social anthropologist, gave the concept of social structure a central place ... structural gene (from the article "blood group") ...on the red cells from CDe/cde donors than on those of CDe/cDE people. The inheritance ... structural genomics (from the article "recombinant DNA technology") Genomics has two subdivisions: structural genomics and functional genomics. Structural genomics is based on the ... structural geology scientific discipline that is concerned with rock deformation on both a large and a small ... [1 Related Articles] structural grammar (from the article "grammar") ...that all native speakers of a language control by about the age of six. Depending ... Structural Impediments Initiative (from the article "Japan") ...Yasuhiro in 1986 proposed the restructuring of the Japanese economy to make it rely almost ... structural landform any topographic feature formed by the differential wearing away of rocks and the deposition of ... structural linguistics (from the article "Harris, Zellig S.") Russian-born American scholar known for his work in structural linguistics. He carried the structural linguistic ... structural ribonucleic acid (from the article "metabolism") ...in living organisms: messenger RNA (mRNA) is involved in the immediate transcription of regions of ... structural trap (from the article "petroleum trap") Many systems have been proposed for the classification of traps; one simple system divides them ... structuralism in cultural anthropology, the school of thought developed by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, in ... [13 Related Articles] structuralism in psychology, a systematic movement founded in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) and mainly identified ... [6 Related Articles] structuralism (from the article "mathematics, philosophy of") Finally, the nontraditional version of Platonism developed by Resnik and Shapiro is known as structuralism. ... structuralism in linguistics, any one of several schools of 20th-century linguistics committed to the structuralist principle ... [4 Related Articles] structuralism (from the article "political economy") ...construct peaceful relations and world order. Economic liberals, in particular, would limit the role of ... structuralism (from the article "Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley") ...public lectures published as Stars and Atoms (1927). In his well-written popular books he also ... structuration (from the article "social structure") ...network, social figuration, and social system. Starting with his work in general sociological theory in ... structure (from the article "international relations") Since the 1970s the study of international relations has been marked by a renewed debate ... structure (from the article "aesthetics") One recurring idea is that the operative feature determining our perception of form is "structure," ... structure (from the article "metalogic") A realization of a language (for example, the one based on L) is a structure ... structure-activity relationship (from the article "pharmaceutical industry") The term structure-activity relationship (SAR) is now used to describe the process used by Ehrlich ... structure-medium interaction (from the article "tunnels and underground excavations") ...with time, however, increasing the load on the support. Thus, the total load is shared ... structure-of-intellect theory (from the article "intelligence, human") ...psychologists agreed that Spearman's subdivision of abilities was too narrow, but not all agreed that ... structured data (from the article "information processing") From the viewpoint of digital information storage, it is useful to distinguish between "structured" data, ... Structured Query Language (from the article "computer programming language") SQL (structured query language) is a language for specifying the organization of databases (collections of ... Structured Systems Group (from the article "computer") The availability of BASIC and CP/M enabled more widespread software development. By 1977 a two-person ... Struensee, Johann Friedrich, Graf von (count of) German physician and statesman who, through his control over the weak-minded King Christian ... [4 Related Articles] struggle for existence (from the article "Darwinism") ...which Darwin did not attempt to explain, present in all forms of life; (2) heredity-the ... struma (from the article "king's evil") scrofula (q.v.), or struma, a tuberculous swelling of the lymph glands, once popularly supposed to ... Struma River river in western Bulgaria and northeastern Greece, rising in the Vitosha Massif of the Rhodope ... [2 Related Articles] Strummer, Joe British punk rock star (b. Aug. 21, 1952, Ankara, Turkey-d. Dec. 22, 2002, Broomfield, Somerset, ... [1 Related Articles] strung rattle (from the article "percussion instrument") Strung rattles are worn as leggings to emphasize a dancer's movements, but when the strung ... Strungk, Nicolaus Adam (from the article "percussion instrument") Cymbals were apparently forgotten during the Renaissance; they reappear in the German composer Nicolaus Adam ... Struniiformes (from the article "crossopterygian") The Struniiformes, discovered only recently, lived in the Devonian. Their bony remains indicate considerable differences ... Struss, Karl (from the article "1927/28: Other Winners") Original Story: Ben Hecht for UnderworldAdaptation: Benjamin Glazer for 7th HeavenTitle Writing: Joseph FarnhamCinematography: Charles ... strut shock absorber (from the article "shock absorber") ...slow down and reduce the magnitude of these vibratory motions. Modern shock absorbers are hydraulic ... Struthiomimus ostrichlike dinosaurs found as fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period (99 million to 65 million ... [3 Related Articles] struthioniform (from the article "bird") ...Sahara; soft plumage with long, pointed tails and all 4 toes directed forward; largely vegetarian, ... Strutinskii's hybrid model (from the article "nuclear fission") ...in accounting for the energy of deformation of nuclei (i.e., surface energy), particularly at the ... Strutinskii, V. M. (from the article "nuclear fission") ...fission process. A major breakthrough occurred when a hybrid model incorporating shell effects as a ... Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von one of the greatest 19th-century astronomers and the first in a line of four generations ... [1 Related Articles] Struve, Gustav von German revolutionary and political agitator, who, with his wife, Amelie Disar, took an active part ... Struve, Otto Russian-American astronomer known for his contributions to stellar spectroscopy, notably the discovery of the widespread ... Struve, Pyotr Berngardovich liberal Russian economist and political scientist. strychnine a poisonous alkaloid that is obtained from seeds of the nux vomica tree (S. nux-vomica) ... [2 Related Articles] Strychnos genus of tropical woody plants, many of them trees, in the family Loganiaceae (order Gentianales). ... [1 Related Articles] Strychnos spinosa (from the article "Gentianales") ...a fish or rodent poison and as a source of pharmacological products. Alkaloids produced by ... Strychnos toxifera (from the article "Strychnos") Several of the 190 species in the genus are important sources of drugs or poisons: ... Stryjkowski, Julian (JULIAN STARK), Polish writer acclaimed for novels that described Jewish life in Poland, particularly a ... [1 Related Articles] Stryker, Roy E. (from the article "photography, history of") ...in the United States during the Great Depression, when the federal government undertook a major ... Stryy city, western Ukraine, on the Stryy River. It is an old town, dating in the ... Strzelecki, Paul Edmund de (from the article "Snowy Mountains") ...for three to six months, the range is a winter sports area and site of ... STS-114 (from the article "Physical Sciences") The remainder of Discovery's mission, STS-114, went well. It docked to the International Space Station ... STS-117 (from the article "Physical Sciences") In 2007 three Space Shuttle missions-STS-117, 118, and 120-were flown to the International Space Station ... STS-118 (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...The first mission installed the S3/S4 (starboard) truss and its pair of solar arrays. The ... STS-120 (from the article "Physical Sciences") In 2007 three Space Shuttle missions-STS-117, 118, and 120-were flown to the International Space Station ... Stuart Highway (from the article "Adelaide River") ...the black soils lining the Adelaide's lower reaches have been used for agricultural experiments-vegetables and ... Stuart style visual arts produced during the reign of the British house of Stuart; that is, from ... [2 Related Articles] Stuart, Arabella English noblewoman whose status as a claimant to the throne of her first cousin King ... Stuart, Gilbert American painter who was one of the great portrait painters of his era and the ... [3 Related Articles] Stuart, House of royal house of Scotland from 1371 and of England from 1603. It was interrupted in ... [7 Related Articles] Stuart, James (from the article "Western architecture") ...two events of 1758 marked the birth of English Neoclassical architecture: the erection of a ... Stuart, Jeb Confederate cavalry officer whose reports of enemy troop movements were of particular value to the ... Stuart, John McDouall (from the article "Finke River") ...delineated banks. The river drains a basin of 44,000 square miles (115,000 square km). Its ... Stubbenkammer (from the article "Rugen") ...Hiddensee, which are also included under the name for statistical purposes. The western coast is ... Stubbins, Hugh Asher, Jr. American architect (b. Jan. 11, 1912, Birmingham, Ala.-d. July 5, 2006, Cambridge, Mass.), was a ... Stubbs, George outstanding English animal painter and anatomical draftsman. [2 Related Articles] Stubbs, Levi American singer was the lead vocalist for the Four Tops, one of Motown's most popular ... [1 Related Articles] Stubbs, Philip vigorous Puritan pamphleteer and propagandist for a purer life and straiter devotion whose Anatomie of ... Stubbs, William influential English historian who founded the systematic study of English medieval constitutional history. stuccowork in architecture, fine exterior or interior plasterwork used as three-dimensional ornamentation, as a smooth paintable ... [10 Related Articles] Stuck, Franz von (from the article "Kandinsky, Wassily") ...such in a private school at Munich run by Anton Azbe. Two years of study ... Stuck, Hudson (from the article "mountaineering") ...feet), which stands athwart the international boundary of Alaska and Canada, and in 1906 successfully ... Stuckelberg de Breidenbach, Ernest C.G. (from the article "relativistic mechanics") ...timelike (see Figure 3). One may if one wishes attach an arrow to the world ... Stuckofen (from the article "iron processing") ...was the Catalan forge (see figure), which survived in Spain until the 19th century. Another ... stud (from the article "carpentry") The framing of houses generally proceeds in one of two ways: in platform (or Western) ... Stud Poker (from the article "poker") Stud poker stud-link chain (from the article "chain") ...and power shovels, but it has partly been replaced by cable or wire rope. On ... studbook official record of the pedigree of purebred animals, particularly horses and dogs, usually published by ... studded tire (from the article "tire") ...pulling ability than regular tires on loosely packed snow and nearly 30 percent more on ... Studebaker, Clement American manufacturer who founded a family firm that became the world's largest producer of horse-drawn ... Studebaker-Packard Corporation (from the article "automotive industry") ...form AMC. The company enjoyed temporary prosperity in the late 1950s when it introduced the ... Studenica (from the article "Kraljevo") ...fine frescoes of the Raska school of painting; in it Serbian kings were crowned in ... student aid form of assistance designed to help students pay for their education. In general, such awards ... student group (from the article "anarchism") ...beginning with the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s, which aimed to resist injustice ... Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the ... [6 Related Articles] Student Volunteer Movement (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") ...for millennial expression in his Northfield, Massachusetts, conferences. Millennialists were also active in the late ... Student's t distribution (from the article "Student's t-test") In 1908 William Sealy Gosset, an Englishman publishing under the pseudonym Student, developed the t-test ... Student's t-statistic (from the article "Student's t-test") ...two-sided (also termed two-tailed), stating simply that the means are not equivalent, or one-sided, specifying ... Student's t-test in statistics, a method of testing hypotheses about the mean of a small sample drawn ... Students for a Democratic Society American student organization that flourished in the mid-to-late 1960s and was known for its activism ... studia generale (from the article "university") The modern university evolved from the medieval schools known as studia generalia; ... studia humanitatis (from the article "humanities") ...although not the substance of its component disciplines, dropped out of common use in the ... Studio di Fonologia Musicale (from the article "Maderna, Bruno") ...Neue Musik (International Vacation Course for New Music) at Darmstadt, a centre of avant-garde musical ... Studio One (from the article "Studio One") Coxsone Dodd, who had encountered rhythm and blues as a migrant cane cutter in the ... studio system (from the article "motion picture") In the great age of the studio system (1927-48), strong directors vied with the factory ... studiolo (from the article "Sustris, Federico") ...his father. In 1563 he went to Florence as a student and then as assistant ... Studion (from the article "calligraphy") ...of minuscule. There is no incontrovertible evidence of how this came about, or where. What ... studite (from the article "Christianity") Monasticism in 9th-century Byzantium was centred upon the Studites, who came to be a faction ... studium (from the article "Italy") ...the Art of Hunting with Birds") drew not only on earlier writings but also on ... studium curiae (from the article "Rome, University of") ...of higher learning in Rome. Founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, the university, known ... studium urbis (from the article "Rome, University of") coeducational, autonomous state institution of higher learning in Rome. Founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface ... Study of Chinese Architecture, Society for the (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...renaissance movement to study and revive traditional Chinese architecture and to find ways of adapting ... Study of Democratic Institutions, Center for the nonprofit educational institution established at Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1959 and based in Los Angeles ... 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Study of the History, Life and Culture of Black People, Institute for the (from the article "Walker, Margaret") Walker began teaching in the 1940s and joined the faculty at Jackson State College (now ... stuffing (from the article "fibre, man-made") Fibres spun from very large bundles of fibre, called tow, are generally crimped in-line by ... Stuhldreher, Harry (from the article "Four Horsemen") name given by the sportswriter Grantland Rice to the backfield of the University of Notre ... Stuhlinger, Ernst German-born American rocket scientist was a member of the German team of scientists (led by ... Stuhlweissenburg, Battle of (from the article "Lawrence of Brindisi, Saint") ...linguist, he mastered several languages including Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac. Under Popes Gregory XIII ... Stuhmsdorf, Armistice of (from the article "De la Gardie, Jacob Pontusson, Count") ...in Estonia and Latvia) after 1621, but he was recalled after serving as commander in ... Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer (from the article "Grand Island") The Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer is situated at the edge of the city ... Stuka a low-wing, single-engine monoplane-especially the Junkers JU 87 dive-bomber-used by the German Luftwaffe from 1937 ... [3 Related Articles] Stukeley, William English antiquary and physician whose studies of the monumental Neolithic Period-Bronze Age stone circles at ... [1 Related Articles] Stukelj, Leon Slovenian gymnast who represented Yugoslavia in three Olympic Games and won six medals-two gold in ... stump (from the article "cricket") ...a crossbar resting on the slotted tops; the crossbar was called a bail and the ... stump-tailed macaque (from the article "macaque") Stump-tailed macaques (M. arctoides) are strong, shaggy-haired forest dwellers with pink or ... stump-tailed porcupine (from the article "porcupine") All other New World porcupines are arboreal, living in tropical forests from southern Mexico to ... Stumpelbotten (from the article "postal system") ...press (c. 1450) and the expansion of education. The growth of demand made letter carrying ... Stumpf, Bill American designer (b. March 1, 1936, St. Louis, Mo.-d. Aug. 30, 2006, Rochester, Minn.), was ... Stumpf, Carl German philosopher and theoretical psychologist noted for his research on the psychology of music and ... [3 Related Articles] Stumpf, Johannes Swiss chronicler and theologian, one of the most important personalities of the Swiss Reformation.

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