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APh Technological Consulting APh Technological Consulting is a software company, located in Pasadena, California, USA. In 1976 they helped Mattel to develop the Intellivision video game console and also wrote most of the early games for it.
API gravity The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water. If its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks.
API Primate Sanctuary The API Primate Sanctuary, on 186 acres outside Dilley, Texas (about 90 miles south of San Antonio), is home to more than 400 nonhuman primates, many of whom were rescued from abusive or exploitative situations.
API-Calculus In computer science, Api-calculus was introduced in 2002 as an extension of pi-calculus to address some of the limitations of pi-calculus for modeling intelligent agents(Rahimi 2002) Shahram Rahimi, Maria Cobb, Dia Ali, Fred Petry, “A Modeling Tool for Intelligent-Agent Based Systems: Api-Calculus,” Soft Computing Agents: A New Perspective for Dynamic Systems, the International Series "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Application" by IOS Press, pp. 165-186, 2002..
API-TC API-TC is a certification for two-stroke oils, awarded by the American Petroleum Institute. It is given after the product passes through stringent tests that determine the level of detergent performance, dispersion, and anti-oxidation.
APICS APICS The Association for Operations Management, is a not-for-profit international education organization, offering certification programs, training tools and networking opportunities to increase workplace performance. It was founded in 1957 as the American Production and Inventory Control Society, and currently has about 77,000 individual and corporate members in over 25,000 organizations worldwide.
APIIT APIIT, the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, is an educational organisation specializing in providing adult education and training programmes in computing and Information Technology. Formed in 1993 and based originally in Malaysia, APIIT has since established other centres including Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Australia.
APLAC APLAC (Analysis Program for Linear Active Circuits) is a SPICE-like electronic circuit simulation tool originally created by professor Martti Valtonen in Helsinki University of Technology. APLAC Analog and RF simulation software is distributed by AWR-APLAC Corporation.
APLX APLX is a modern, second generation, cross-platform dialect of the APL programming language. APLX is targeted at applications such as financial planning, market research, statistics, management information, and various kinds of scientific and engineering work.
APM 08279+5255 The quasar APM 08279+5255 is an example of a gravitational lens. When originally discovered, the combination of its high redshift and brightness (particularly in the infrared) made it the most luminous object known.
APNG The APNG (Animated Portable Network Graphics) file format is an extension to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification proposed by Stuart Parmenter and Vladimir Vukicevic. It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated graphics interchange format (GIF) files, while retaining backward compatibility with non-animated PNG files.
APO A-1 Milano Apo a-1 is a protein that occurs naturally in humans to help control cholesterol. APO A-1 Milano is a stronger variant of apo a-1 produced in individuals who have a mutation in the gene that produces the apo a-1 protein.
APOBEC3G APOBEC3G is a human protein belonging to the APOBEC superfamily of proteinsSheehy AM, Gaddis NC, Choi JD, Malim MH.Isolation of a human gene that inhibits HIV-1 infection and is suppressed by the viral Vif protein.
APOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC) was a major MP3 warez organization founded by two individuals known under the pseudonyms acid^rain and Viper in May of 1997. aPC operated well into the mid 2000s and was subject to raid during Operation Fastlink — a coordination of four separate simultaneous undercover investigations by the FBI, the FBI Cyber Division, the U.
APRODEH AsociaciĂłn Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) ("Association for Human Rights") is a Peruvian human rights organization. It was established in 1983 to support legislative work in view of the growing human rights violations during that time.
APRSK The Andhra Pradesh Residential School, Kodigenahalli (APRSK), is one of the oldest residential and most prestigious residential schools in Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in the early 1970s by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh to promote education in rural areas.
APRU Formed in 1997, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) is a consortium of 37 leading universities in the Pacific Rim. The association aims to promote scientific, educational and cultural collaboration among Pacific Rim economies.
APS Athletics Championships The APS Athletics is a track and field competition competed between the members of the Associated Public Schools of Victoria. The competition is divided into a boys division and a girls division, where the finals are usually held at Olympic Park, Melbourne annually in late October, with the girls' competition in the morning, and the boys' in the afternoon.
APS Netherlands APS Netherlands, also known as the National Center for School Improvement, is a non-governmental, not-for-profit educational organization in Utrecht, Netherlands. Founded in 1969, it is comprised of approximately 130 educators from various professional backgrounds.
APS Underwater Assault Rifle The APS Underwater Assault Rifle is a derivative of the AK47, designed in the Soviet Union in the early 1970's for use underwater by frogmen or combat swimmers. Underwater, ordinary-shaped bullets are inaccurate and very short-range.
APSRTC APSRTC (Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation) is the leading transport corporation in Andhra Pradesh State, India. It runs thousands of buses all over the state and also runs hundreds of buses to other states.
APT (programming language) APT programming language is a high-level computer programming language used to generate instructions for numerically controlled machine tools. The name is derived from the acronym for Automatically Programmed Tool.
APTIS ticket features Tickets issued from British Rail's APTIS system had a considerable amount of detail, presented in a consistent, standard format. This format has formed the basis for all subsequent ticket issuing systems introduced on the railway network - Ticket Office-based, self-service and conductor-operated machines alike.
APTItude Closer APTItude Closer is a title insurance closing software package developed by the American Pioneer Title Insurance Company which was later acquired by Fidelity in a corporate acquisition. Prior to the acquisition APTItude Closer was provided to title agents primarily located in Florida as an incentive to use American Pioneer Title Insurance Company as an underwriter.
APTLD APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) is an organisation for ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain) registries in Asia Pacific region. APTLD was originally established in 1998, and in 2003 legally established in Malaysia.
APX In complexity theory the class APX (an abbreviation of "approximable") is the set of NP optimization problems that allow polynomial-time approximation algorithms with approximation ratio bounded by a constant (or constant-factor approximation algorithms for short). In simple terms, problems in this class have efficient algorithms that can find an answer within some fixed percentage of the optimal answer.
APXS An Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) (or Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer for the Pathfinder mission) is a device that analyses the chemical element composition of a sample from the scattered Alpha particles, emitted Protons (for Pathfinder only), and fluorescent X-Rays after the sample is irradidated with Alpha particle and X-Rays from radioactive sources.
Aq Bars Aq Bars (or Ak Bars) (Cyrillic: Ак Барс) is the coat of arms of Tatarstan. It is an ancient Turkic and Bolgar symbol translated as White Leopard or Snow Leopard, and has been in use since 1991 as the official symbol of Tatarstan.
Aq Sunqur al-Hajib Qasim ad-Dawla Abu Said Aq Sunqur al-Hajib (also Aksunkur el-Hacib or Aksungur al-Hajib) was the Seljuk governor of Aleppo under Sultan Malik Shah I. He probably enjoyed some independence from his lord and was from 1087 the de-facto ruler of most of Syria.
Aqa Bala Áqá-Bálá, sometimes referred to as Áqá-Bálá Bayg (whose real name was Prince Malik Qasim), was a famed Persian artist. He was the chief painter of the governor of Iran and was asked by him to paint the Báb’s portrait, which is the only known image of the Báb in existence to this day.
Aqa Hasan Maulana Syed Aqa Hasan Naqvi (مولانا سيد اقا حسن نقوى) was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Shia Islam and came from a family of scholars known as "Khandaan-e-Ijtehad". He married into Khandaan-e-Ijtehad, his wife was the daughter of Syed Mohammad, who was the oldest son of Syed Dildar Ali, also known as Ghufran Ma'ab.
Aqrabi Aqrabi ( []), or the Aqrabi Sheikhdom ( []), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate, the Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia. Its capital was Bir Ahmad.
Aqsaqal Aqsaqal (or aksakal) in Turki literally means "white beard" that refers to the old and wise of the community. In earlier times, Aqsaqal played great role in the politics of the different tribes as advisors and judges.
Aqtöbe Aqtöbe (Kazakh: Ақтөбе; Russian: Актюбинск or Aktyubinsk; alternative transliteration: Aktöbe) is a city on the Ilek River in Kazakhstan. With a population of 320,000, it is the capital of Aqtöbe Oblast.
Aqua (band) Aqua was a Danish-Scandinavian dance/pop group, best-known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1994, and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Aqua (color) Aqua is an alternative name of color cyan, used mostly by graphic designers and other computer-related professionals. Color aquamarine is a more accurate representation of what would be called "aqua" in the world of traditional media.
Aqua (satellite) Aqua (EOS PM-1) is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the precipitation, evaporation, and cycling of water. It is the second major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) following on Terra (launched 1999) and followed by Aura (launched 2004).
Aqua Augusta (Naples) The Aqua Augusta or Serino Aqueduct was a Roman aqueduct which supplied water to eight cities in the Bay of Naples, including Pompeii, Stabiae and Nola. It started near the modern town of Serino and terminated, after 96 km, in the Piscina Mirabilis at the naval port, Portus Julius, of Misenum.
Aqua Augusta (Rome) The Aqua Augusta was a short aqueduct in Rome. Owing to severe drought, the Emperor Augustus built the Aqua Augusta in or around 33 BC in order to supplement the Aqua Marcia, and the later the Aqua Claudia when required.
Aqua fortis Aqua fortis, or "strong water," in alchemy, is a corrosive solution of nitric acid made from saltpeter. It was used in alchemy as a solvent for dissolving silver and most other metals with notable exceptions of gold and platinum that can be dissolved using aqua regia.
Aqua GT Aqua GT is a water racing game, developed by East Point Software LTD and released on both the Dreamcast and PlayStation in 2001. The game features over 50 races and a wide variety of race vehicles, from jetboats, monos, batwings and catamarans, culminating in the Aqua GT Championship.
Aqua Kids Aqua Kids is an anime produced by the Korean broadcast company SBS and it once aired on TV Tokyo between 01 April 2004 and 23 September 2004 during the Thursday 06:00pm to 06:30pm slot, Replacing previous series Pluster World and then been replaced by another anime series: Onmyou Taisenki.
Aqua regia Aqua regia (Latin for "royal water") is a highly corrosive, fuming yellow or red solution. The mixture is formed by freshly mixing concentrated nitric acid and concentrated hydrochloric acid, usually in a volumetric ratio of one to three.
Aqua Rush Aqua Rush is a Tetris-type arcade game released by Namco in 1999, set against aquatic backdrops. The difference in this game is that if you want to change the shape of the block, it will add to the block, making it more difficult to place.
Aqua String Band The all-volunteer Aqua String Band (see String band) was chartered to participate in the annual Philadelphia Mummers' New Year's Parade (Mummers parade). Organized on April 2, 1920 by Elmer W Leyrer and Fred J Kesel, Sr, Aqua was incorporated into the String Band Association in 1945.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known as ATHF or simply Aqua Teen) is an American animated television series shown on Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim late-night programming block. It premiered on December 30, 2000.
Aqua Tofana Aqua Tofana (also known as Acqua Toffana and Aqua Tufania and "manna di San Nicola") was a strong poison that was reputedly widely used in Naples and Rome, Italy. During the early 1600s, an infamous figure (megera), originally from Palermo, was the lady named Giulia Toffana.
Aqua Traiana The Aqua Traiana (later renamed the Acqua Paola) was a 1st Century acqueduct built by Emperor Trajan from 98-117 AD. It channelled water from Lake Bracciano, 40 km north-west of Rome, to Rome in ancient Roman times but had fallen into disuse by the 17th Century.
Aqua vitae Aqua vitae (Latin: "water of life"), is an archaic name for a concentrated aqueous solution of ethanol. The term originated in the Middle Ages and was originally used as a generic name for all types of distillates.
Aqua Velva Williams' Aqua Velva originally began as an alcohol-based aftershave for men but has since expanded into a full line of men's grooming products marketed worldwide by Combe Incorporated. Aqua Velva products include classic Ice Blue, Ice Sport, Musk, and new Ice Balm aftershave.
Aqua Virgo The Aqua Virgo was one of the 11 aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome. The aqueduct fell into disuse with the fall of the Roman Empire, but was fully restored nearly a whole millennium later during the Renaissance to take its current form as the Acqua Vergine.
Aqua Vita In the Aqua Vita episode of The Twilight Zone, Mimi Kennedy plays a news anchor in her 40's afraid of losing her job to a younger reporter. She hears about this new water called "Aqua Vita" which has the ability to make one younger with its use.
Aqua-lung Aqua-lung was the original name for the first open-circuit SCUBA diving equipment, developed by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau in 1943"Year by Year 1943" -- History Channel International. It consists of a high pressure diving cylinder and a diving regulator that supplies the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure, via a demand valve.
Aquablue Aquablue is a French science fiction graphic novel by writer Thierry Cailleteau with several artists, Olivier Vatine (first volumes) and Ciro Tota (middle volumes) and Stéphane Brangier ('Siro', latest volumes). An adventure and military-themed series, it also places a lot of weight on interesting characters, ecological themes and criticism of colonial exploitation.
Aquaculture Aquaculture is the cultivation of the natural produce of water (such as fish or shellfish, algae and other aquatic organisms). The term is distinguished from fishing by the idea of active human effort in maintaining or increasing the species involved, as opposed to simply taking them from the wild.
AquaDom The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is a 14 meter tall cylindrical acrylic glass fish tank with built-in transparent elevator. It is located in Berlin-Mitte, in the DomAquarée complex, which also contains a hotel, offices, a restaurant, and the aquarium Sea Life Center.
Aquae Cutiliae Aquae Cutiliae is a mineral spring in Italy, near the modern Cittaducale, 9 miles east of Rieti. The lake near it was supposed by classical writers to be the central point of Italy, and was renowned for its floating islands, which, as in other cases, were formed from the partial petrification of plants by the mineral substances contained in the water.
Aquafest Commonwealth Angling Competition The Aquafest Commonwealth Angling Competition was held in conjunction with the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The event was organised by British Waterways and attracted anglers from around the Commonwealth.
Aquafina Aquafina is a non-carbonated bottled water produced by PepsiCo. It was first distributed in Wichita, Kansas in 1994, was distributed across the United States and Canada by 1997 and Turkey, and as of 2003, had become the United States' top-selling bottled water brand in measured retail channels.
Aquagenous Urticaria Aquagenous Urticaria, also known as Aquagenic Urticaria or Water Urticaria, is a rare condition, which is literally an allergy to water. Those afflicted with it develope hives within 15 minutes after contact with water, and they can last for up to two hours.
Aquagirl Aquagirl is the name of several fictional characters who were superheroes featured in comic books published by DC Comics. Although there have been four different characters bearing the name, only two are canonical, the most recognizable being Aqualad's Atlantean girlfriend.
Aqualung (song) "Aqualung" is a song by English progressive rock band Jethro Tull, featured as the first track on their 1971 album Aqualung, and written by the bands' frontman Ian Anderson and his then-wife Jennie Franks. The original recording runs for 6 minutes and 32 seconds.
Aquaman (animated series) Aquaman was a Filmation animated series that premiered on CBS on September 14, 1968; it was 30-minute version of The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, repackaged without the Superman and Superboy segments. The show was comprised of previously-aired adventures featuring the DC Comics superheroes Aquaman and his sidekick Aqualad, the Atom, the Flash and Kid Flash, the Green Lantern and Hawkman.
Aquamanile In Christian liturgical usage, an aquamanile (plural aquamanilia or simply aquamaniles) is a special ewer for the ritual washing of hands (aqua + manos) over a basin, in the ritual of the lavabo, in which the officiating priest washes his hands before vesting, again before the consecration of the Eucharist and after mass. As a ritual object, metal was considered more suitable than pottery.
Aquamid Aquamid® is the trade name for a specific formulation of hydrophilic polyacrylamide gel. Available as an injectable implant, it is manufactured by the Danish company Ferrosan and is used as a subdermal filler for aesthetic purposes.
Aquanaut An aquanaut is any individual who has lived and worked in a fixed underwater habitat on the seafloor or other underwater location for a period equal to or greater than 24 continuous hours without returning to the surface. An aquanaut is distinct from a submariner in that a submariner is confined to a moving underwater vehicle such as a submarine.
Aquanaut's Holiday Aquanaut's Holiday is an early PlayStation game by Artdink, in which the player assumes the role of an overworked marine explorer who returns to the water for pleasure after having brought harmony to the world's oceans. Gameplay is in the first person and consists primarily of the player exploring vast stretches of ocean, occasionally discovering underwater ruins or treasure, or fish which can be 'spoken' with.
Aquaphilia Aquaphilia also called hydrophilia is a term used to describe a form of sexual fetishism which involves images of people swimming or posing underwater, and sexual activity in or under water. Literally "water lover" from the Latin aqua and Greek φιλειν (philein).
Aquaporin Aquaporins are a class of integral membrane proteins or more commonly referred to as a class of major intrinsic proteins (MIP) that form pores in the membrane of biological cells. Aquaporins selectively conduct water molecules in and out, while preventing the passage of ions and other solutes.
Aquarela do Brasil "Aquarela do Brasil" ("Watercolor of Brazil", also known in the English-speaking countries simply as "Brazil") is one of the most noted Brazilian patriotic songs, written by Ary Barroso one rainy night in 1939. This song marked the creation of a new genre, the Samba-exaltação (Exaltation Samba), which was adopted by the nationalist dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas.
Aquarian Illusion The Aquarian Illusion is a variation of the Metamorphosis or Substitution Trunk magic illusion. It was created by Alan Wakeling for Mark Wilson, who performed it in The Magic Circus series and a HBO special Mumbo Jumbo!
Aquarian Tabernacle Church The Aquarian Tabernacle Church (ATC) is "the first Wiccan church with full legal status and recognition by the governments of three nations" (the USA, Canada, and Australia) and was founded as a coven by Pete "Pathfinder" Davis, the current archpriest, in 1979. The current Archpriestess is Deborah K.
Aquarii Aquarii is a name given to the Christians who substituted water for wine in the Eucharist. They were not a sect, for we find the practice widely in vogue at an early time, even among the orthodox (It should be noted that this claim is not shared by all.
Aquarium An aquarium (plural aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium, usually contained in a clear-sided container typically constructed of glass or high-strength plastic, in which water-dwelling plants and animals are kept in captivity, often for public display; or it is an establishment featuring such displays. Animals in aquariums usually include fish, sometimes invertebrates, as well as amphibians, marine mammals, or reptiles.
Aquarium (group) Aquarium [Аква́риум] is a Russian rock group, formed in Leningrad in 1972 by Boris Grebenshchikov, then a student of Applied Mathematics at Leningrad State University, and Anatoly "George" Gunitsky, then a playwright and absurdist poet.
Aquarium (MBTA station) Aquarium/Financial District Station of the MBTA, is a station on the Blue Line, serving the New England Aquarium and Boston's Financial District. Above ground, the exits are located in the Financial District at Atlantic Avenue and State Street near International Place.
Aquarium (Suvorov) Aquarium (Russian title Аквариум) is a partly autobiographical description by Viktor Suvorov of the GRU (Soviet military intelligence directorate). The account starts in 1969, when Suvorov, as an ordinary tank company commander, is recruited into intelligence analysis by an up-and-coming Lieutenant Colonel.
Aquarium Gallery The Aquarium Gallery is a contemporary commercial art gallery in a Georgian building in Bloomsbury, London, run by Steve Lowe. It works with artists, musicians and writers, and specialises in more unorthodox punk-based art work, including Jamie Reid and Billy Childish.
Aquarium of the Pacific The Aquarium of the Pacific is located in the city of Long Beach, California at the mouth of the Los Angeles River. The aquarium features a collection of over 12,500 animals representing almost 1,000 different species.
Aquarium Rescue Unit The Aquarium Rescue Unit was an experimental jazz rock group, originally founded as a backup band for Col. Bruce Hampton, consisting at various times, of Oteil Burbridge, Jimmy Herring, Matt Mundy, Charles Williams, Kofi Burbridge, Jeff Sipe, Paul Henson, and Hampton himself.
Aquarius (hotel) Aquarius is the largest hotel and casino located in Laughlin, Nevada, United States. Owned by American Casino & Entertainment Properties, it has 1,907 rooms and suites in two, 18-story towers that overlook the Colorado River.
Aquarius (sports drink) Aquarius is a mineral sports drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company. It was first introduced in 1983 in Japan as a grapefruit-flavored sports drink Coca-Cola Bottling Website - Aquarius, as a response to a competitor's brand of sports drink called Pocari Sweat.
Aquarius Festival The Aquarius Festival was a counter-cultural arts and music festival organised by the Australian Union of Students and sponsored by Peter Stuyvesant. The first one was held in Canberra in 1971, MilesAgo Aquarius 1971 (Retrieved 26 October 2006) while the second, and last, was held in Nimbin, New South Wales] in [[1973.
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", sometimes incorrectly known as "The Age of Aquarius", is a medley of the songs "Aquarius" and "The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)" from the musical Hair, originally released by The Fifth Dimension as a single which held the number one position on the U.S.
Aquashift Aquashift is a high-end swim suit made by American swim suit maker TYR Sports which was released in early 2004. It incorporates years of research that TYR performed with the Center for Research and Education in Special Environments, or CRESE, at the University at Buffalo.
Aquashow Aquashow was the debut album by singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy and was reviewed by Paul Nelson in Rolling Stone along with Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle under the headline "The Best Dylan since 1968" which earned them both the "New-Dylan" tag.
Aquatic The term aquatic refers to water and can be either a noun or an adjective. Dictionary definitions do not specify what kind of water, although in both general use and in the sciences, the implication is often that of fresh water.
Aquatic adaptation Several animal groups have undergone aquatic adaptation, going from being purely terrestrial animals to living at least part of the time in water. The adaptations in early speciation tend to develop as the animal ventures into water in order to find available food.
Aquatic and environmental engineering Aquatic and environmental engineering; an engineering topic, used sometimes as a synonym for Civil engineering by some universities in Sweden, since the word 'civil engineer' often refers to an engineering degree.
Aquatic animal Animal environments are classified as either aquatic (water), terrestrial (land), or amphibious (water and land). Aquatic animals require a watery habitat, but do not necessarily have to live entirely in water.
Aquatic ape hypothesis The aquatic ape hypothesis (sometimes called the aquatic ape theory) proposes that the ancestors of humans went through one or more periods of time living in a semi-aquatic setting and that this history accounts for many of the characteristics of species in the Homo genus that are not seen in other primates, such as chimpanzees or gorillas. The hypothesis, often referred to simply as AAT, has been poorly received in mainstream paleoanthropology.
Aquatic plant Aquatic plants — also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes — are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments. Because living on or under the water surface requires numerous special adaptations, aquatic plants can only grow in water or permanently saturated soil.
Aquatic Park (Berkeley) Aquatic Park is a public park in Berkeley, California, located just east of the Eastshore Freeway (Interstate 80) between Ashby and University Avenues. The park was created in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration, simultaneous with its work on the nearby Berkeley Yacht Harbor.
Aquatic Species Program The Aquatic Species Program was a research program funded by the Department of Energy, which over the course of two decades looked into the production of energy using algae], later on the aim of the program was focused to the production of [[bio-diesel from algae. One side benefit developed was the sequestration of waste CO2 from coal fired power plants.
Aquatic toxicology Aquatic toxicology is the study of the effects of manufactured chemicals and other anthropogenic and natural materials and activities on aquatic organisms at various levels of organization, from subcellular through individual organisms to communities and ecosystems (Rand, 1995).
Aquatics at the 2008 Summer Olympics Aquatics at the 2008 Summer Olympics—separated into the disciplines of Diving, Swimming, Synchronized swimming, and Water polo—will be held over a sixteen day period starting August 9 and ending August 24. All events of the four disciplines (except the new event of Marathon 10km) will take place at the Beijing National Aquatics Center.
Aquí no hay quien viva Aquí no hay quien viva (Spanish, 'No One Can Live Here' or, translated more freely, 'This Place is Awful') is a Spanish television comedy focusing on the inhabitants of the fictional building in Desengaño 21, Calle Desengaño being a street between the Districts of Gran Via and Chueca in Madrid. New episodes are shown on Antena 3 network in Spain, and cable/satellite channel Factoría de Ficción reruns them a couple of weeks later.
Aqueduct of cochlea Medial to the opening for the carotid canal and close to its posterior border, in front of the jugular fossa, is a triangular depression; at the apex of this is a small opening, the aquaeductus cochleae (or cochlear aqueduct, or aqueduct of cochlea), which lodges a tubular prolongation of the dura mater establishing a communication between the perilymphatic space and the subarachnoid space, and transmits a vein from the cochlea to join the internal jugular
Aqueduct of Segovia The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is one of the most significant and best-preserved monuments left by the Romans on the Iberian Peninsula. It is among the most important symbols of Segovia, as is evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.
Aquello que Amamos Aquello que amamos (English language:Those that Loved) is a 1959 Argentine film directed and written by Leopoldo Torres RĂ­os. The film premiered on 20 August 1959 in Buenos Aires and starred Lautaro MurĂşa and AĂ­da Luz.

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