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Iminium An iminium salt or cation in organic chemistry has the general structure [R1R2C=NR3R4]+ and is as such a protonated or substituted imine. It is an intermediate in many organic reactions such as the Beckmann rearrangement, Vilsmeier-Haack reaction, Stephen reaction or the Duff reaction.
Iminostilbene Iminostilbene (alternative names: o,o'-Iminostilbene, 5H-Dibenz[b,f]azepine) is a chemical compound with a structure of tricyclic tertiary amine. It is related to a class of anticonvulsants which are employed in the prevention or the treatment of epileptic seizures and bipolar disorders.
Imipramine Imipramine (sold as Antideprin®, Deprenil, Deprimin, Deprinol, Depsonil, Dynaprin, Eupramin, Imipramil, Irmin, Janimine®, Melipramin, Surplix, Tofranil®) is an antidepressant medication, a tricyclic antidepressant of the dibenzazepine group, mainly used in the treatment of clinical depression and enuresis.
Imiquimod Imiquimod (INN, marketed by 3M under the trade name Aldara™) is a prescription medication used to treat certain diseases of the skin, including skin cancer (basal cell carcinoma, Bowen's disease, superficial squamous cell carcinoma, some superfical malignant melanomas and actinic keratosis) as well as genital warts. It has also been tested for treatment of Molluscum contagiosum.
Imitation Electric Piano Imitation Electric Piano is a band formed in 1999 by Stereolab bassist Simon Johns and Andrew Blake (guitar). They recorded their eponymous instrumental first EP for Duophonic Records' 'Super 45s' series in 1999.
Imitation of Christ (painting) The Imitation of Christ is a controversial painting depicting a gay Jesus painted by prominent Tasmanian artist Shaun McGowan. The painting has sparked much controversy, and has prompted a few of Tasmania’s MP’s to declare that the painting should not be allowed to be displayed publicly.
Imitation of Life (1959 film) Imitation of Life is a 1959 film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from Fannie Hurst's novel Imitation of Life, produced by Universal as a vehicle for Lana Turner. It is a remake of the 1934 Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Robert Alda, Susan Kohner, Dan O'Herlihy, and presenting Juanita Moore as Annie Johnson.
Imjingak Imjingak (pronounced Imjin-gak), and sometimes in English called the Imjingak "resort", is a park of sorts located on the banks of the Imjin River in the city of Paju, South Korea. The park has many statues and monuments regarding the Korean War.
Imjingang Station Imjingang station is one of the stations along Gyeongui Line, and it has trains to Seoul Station via Ilsan every hour between 6am and mid-night. It was the northernmost station in Gyeongui Line before Dorasan Station opened.
Imke Bartels Imke Anne Marian Bartels-Schellekens (born March 15, 1977 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she finished in fourth place in the Team Dressage event, and in eleventh position in the Individual Competition.
Imlac PDS-1 The Imlac PDS-1 is a graphical minicomputer made by Imlac Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts. The PDS-1 debuted in 1970 and is considered to be the predecessor of all later graphical minicomputers and modern computer workstations.
Immacolata Immacolata (Italian for "immaculate" and an epithet for Virgin Mary) aka The Incantatrix aka The Witch is a fictional character, created by Clive Barker and featured in his 1987 epic fantasy novel Weaveworld. One of the main villains in the book, she is an immensely powerful witch, her main goal being the destruction of the race she comes from, the magical creatures known as the Seerkind.
Immaculata High School (Somerville, New Jersey) Immaculata High School (also known as Immaculata or IHS) is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic high school in Somerville, New Jersey. Founded in 1962, Immaculata High School operates within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen and enrolls approximately 850 students from surrounding communities.
Immaculata University Immaculata University is a Catholic university on King Road in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Immaculata was founded as a women's college in 1920, by the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and is part of the greater IHM community, which includes the neighboring House of Studies and an academy for girls.
Immaculate Conception The Immaculate Conception is a Roman Catholic dogma that asserts that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was preserved by God from the stain of original sin at the time of her own conception. Specifically, the dogma says she was not afflicted by the lack of sanctifying grace that afflicts mankind, but was instead filled with grace by God, and furthermore lived a life completely free from sin.
Immaculate Conception Academy-Greenhills In 1935,the Chinese Filipino families asked the MIC for a school so that their baptized children can lead Christian lives through school formation.Today, the school is named Immaculate Conception Academy(ICA), a private Catholic school for girls.
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Ewa Beach Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Ewa Beach is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii in the United States. Located in Ewa Beach on the island of Oahu, the church falls under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Honolulu and its bishop.
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lihue Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Lihue is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii in the United States. Located in Lihue on the island of Kauai, the church falls under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Honolulu and its bishop.
Immaculate Conception High School (Montclair) Immaculate Conception High School is a Roman Catholic coeducational college preparatory high school located in Montclair, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Immaculate was founded in 1925 as a parish school.
Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology The Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology (ICSST) is part of Seton Hall University, the Catholic University of New Jersey, and is located in South Orange. ICCST is one of the oldest Catholic seminaries in the United States and additionally, the university is the oldest diocesan university in the country.
Immaculate Heart Academy Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA) is an all-girls private Roman Catholic high school located in Washington Township, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The school was founded in 1960 by the Sisters of St.
Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) Immaculate Heart High School is a private, all-girl, independent, Catholic, college preparatory school located in the Los Feliz community, in Los Angeles, California. There are 200 students in the middle school (grades 6-8) and 521 in the high school (grades 9-12).
Immaculate Heart of Mary The Immaculate Heart is a devotional name used by some Roman Catholics to refer to the physical heart of Mary, the mother of Jesus as a symbol of Mary's interior life, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for her God, her maternal love for her Son, Jesus, and her motherly and compassionate love for all people. The consideration of Mary's interior life and the beauties of her soul, without any thought of her physical heart, does not constitute the traditional devotion; still less does it consist in the consideration of the Heart of Mary merely as a part of her virginal body.
Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Papaikou Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Papaikou is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii in the United States. Located in Papaikou on the Big Island of Hawaii, the church falls under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Honolulu and its bishop.
Immaculate Reception The Immaculate Reception is the nickname given to one of the most controversial plays in the history of American football . It occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 23, 1972.
Immaculate Rejection The Immaculate Rejection is the nickname given to the improbable NFL play that preserved a Chicago Bears victory over the Green Bay Packers on November 7, 1999 at Lambeau Field, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The name is a homage to an even more improbable play, the Immaculate Reception, which itself is a pun based on the name of the Immaculate Conception in Christianity.
Immanence Immanence, derived from the Latin in manere "to remain within", refers to philosophical and metaphysical theories of the divine as existing and acting within the mind or the world. This concept generally contrasts or coexists with the idea of transcendence.
Immanentize the eschaton To immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the end of days, see eschatology) in the immanent (material) world. More recently, it has been used by conservatives as pejorative against what they perceive as utopian schemes, such as socialism, communism, etc.
Immanuel Immanuel or Emmanuel or Imanu'el (עִמָּנוּאֵל "God [is] with us" consisting of two Hebrew words: אל (El, meaning God) and עמנו (Immanu, meaning with us; Standard Hebrew Immanuel, Tiberian Hebrew Immānûēl) is a name used in and . It also appears in in the Christian New Testament.
Immanuel Bible Church Immanuel Bible Church is a non-denominational Bible church located in Springfield, Virginia, about 2 miles outside of the Capital Beltway and 10 miles outside of Washington, DC. Founded in 1964 as a Baptist church, the congregation met at Lee High School until a suitable structure was established.
Immanuel Jakobovits Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits, KBE (8 February 1921–31 October 1999) was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. His successor is the present Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks.
Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (22 April, 1724 – 12 February, 1804), was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment.
Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch (1829 - 28 October 1873) was a German oriental scholar born in Neisse, Prussian Silesia, of Jewish extraction. On reaching his sixteenth year he began his studies at the university of Berlin, paying special attention to theology and the Talmud.
Immanuel Velikovsky Immanuel Velikovsky (June 10, 1895 (NS) – November 17, 1979) is best known as the author of a number of controversial books on pre-history, particularly the US bestseller Worlds in Collision (1950). Earlier in his life, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a respected psychiatrist/psychoanalyst.
Immatain Immatain () is a Palestinian town on the West Bank located about fourteen kilometres from Nablus between two Israeli settlements, Immanuel and Qedumim. The Israeli West Bank barrier trajectory in this area creates an enclave, penetrating more than 17 km east of the Green Line.
Immaterialism Immaterialism is the theory propounded by Bishop Berkeley in the 18th century which holds that there are no material objects, only minds and ideas in those minds. Berkeley summarized his theory with the motto "esse est percipi" ("To be is to be perceived"), but went on to elaborate it with God as the source of consensus reality and other particulars.
Immediacy index An immediacy index is a measure of how topical and urgent work published in a scientific journal is. Along with the better known impact factor measure, it is a calculated each year by the Institute for Scientific Information for those journals which it indexes; both impact factors and immediacy indices are published annually in the Journal Citation Reports.
Immediate Action Rapid Deployment "Immediate Action Rapid Deployment" (IARD) is a term used to describe a police tactic that provides swift deployment of law enforcement resources to developing or on-going, life-threatening situations where delayed deployment of emergency personnel could otherwise result in death or great bodily harm to innocent persons. The innocents are likely to be incapable of self-protection or escape to a safer environment owing to duress, time and/or other logistical restriction.
Immediate Curtain "Immediate Curtain" is the final track on the first album of the English rock band Matching Mole, an instrumental piece composed and performed by Robert Wyatt in 1972. Played entirely on a Mellotron emulating string sounds, it follows directly and without intermission after the track "Beer As In Braindeer".
Immediate early gene Immediate early genes (IEGs) are activated transiently and rapidly in response to a wide variety of cellular stimuli. They represent a standing response mechanism that is activated at the transcription level in the first round of response to stimuli, before any new proteins are synthesized.
Immediate imperative mood A form of the imperative mood, found in some languages, the Immediate imperative mood indicates commands that should be implemented immediately. In these languages, the ordinary imperative mood does not have the same sense of immediacy, e.
Immediate mode Immediate mode refers to a programming style for 3D graphics where the representations of graphical objects, their spatial relationships, their appearance and the position of the viewer, are transmitted one at a time to a library layer for rendering. As each frame of animation is drawn, the objects are retransmitted.
Immediate Music Immediate Music is a music composition company based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, specialising in producing high-end trailer music for commercial motion pictures. Their style of rousing, propulsive orchestral music is similar to that produced by X-Ray Dog and Magic Box Music.
Immediate pursuit Immediate pursuit is a common law principle describing rules of engagement to enter into combat with or apprehend and forcibly detain another, invade one's privacy, etc. Immediate pursuit enables, for example, a citizen to arrest a person committing some offence, without incurring legal liability.
Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH or NIOSH IDLH) is a limit for personal exposure to a substance defined by the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), normally expressed in parts per million (ppm). This concentration is considered to be the limit beyond which an individual will not be capable of escaping death or permanent injury without help in less than thirty minutes.
Immelmann turn The Immelmann turn (also spelled as Immelman turn; also known as a roll-off-the-top, or simply an Immelmann) is an aerial maneuver, named after World War I German flying ace Max Immelmann who was the first pilot to successfully complete this maneuver. It is more of an aerobatic maneuver, rather than aerial combat maneuver.
Immenstaad Immenstaad is a village in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany, on the north shore of Lake Constance (called the Bodensee in German) near the Austrian and Swiss borders. It is not to be confused with the similarly named town of Immenstadt, approximately 90 km away in Bavaria.
Immenstadt Immenstadt is a small town in the Upper Allgäu, far southern region of Bavaria, Germany, in the German Alps. It is often known as Immenstadt im Allgäu ("Immenstadt in the Allgäu") to differentiate it from the similarly-named town of Immenstaad on Lake Constance.
Immercenary Immercenary is a 1995 3D first-person shooter video game for the 3D0 console by Electronic Arts. While the player explores the Immercenary world, called the Garden, in first-person and engages in real-time combat, it is considered by some to be a computer role-playing game, rather than a first-person shooter.
Immerman-Szelepcsényi theorem The Immerman-Szelepcsényi Theorem was proven independently by Neil Immerman and Róbert Szelepcsényi in 1987, for which they shared the 1995 Gödel Prize. In its general form the theorem states that NSPACE = co-NSPACE.
Immersed submanifold In mathematics, in differential geometry, the image, say S'subset M, of a differentiable manifold S to another differentiable manifold M with respect to a differentiable mapping psi:Sto M may not be a submanifold. Locally, information gets lost unless the mapping psi is an immersion.
Immersed tube An immersed tube is a kind of underwater tunnel constructed using segments built elsewhere, floated and sunk into place, welded together, and drained. This method can be considerably cheaper than excavating through rock and is more resistant to earthquake damage.
Immersion blender An immersion blender is a kitchen appliance used to blend ingredients or puree food in the container in which they are being prepared. They are most often used for pureeing soups and emulsifying sauces while leaving the food in the cooking pan.
Immersion lithography Immersion lithography is a photolithography resolution enhancement technique that replaces the usual air gap between the final lens and the wafer surface with a liquid medium that has a refractive index greater than one. The resolution is reduced by a factor equal to the refractive index of the liquid.
Immersion suit An immersion suit or, more specifically an immersion survival work suit, is a type of dry suit designed to keep water away from the skin, and prevent hypothermia, if its wearer falls into cold water. They usually have built-on feet (boots), and a hood, and either built-on gloves or watertight wrist seals.
Immigrant Ancestors Project The Immigrant Ancestors Project, sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, uses emigration registers to locate information about the birthplaces of immigrants in their native countries, which is not found in the port registers and naturalization documents in the destination countries. Volunteers working with scholars and researchers at Brigham Young University are creating a database of millions of immigrants based on these emigration registers.
Immigrant health care The immigrant population in the United States is a unique and diverse population that is often misunderstood or underrepresented. Regardless of one’s position on the current debate of immigration reform, it is an undeniable truth that many of the children of foreign-born parents living in the United States today are legal US citizens who will live in this country for the remainder of their lives.
Immigration Although human migration has existed for hundreds of thousands of years, immigration in the modern sense refers to movement of people from one nation-state to another, where they are not citizens. Immigration implies long-term permanent residence (and often eventual citizenship) by the immigrants: tourists and short-term visitors are not considered immigrants (see expatriates).
Immigration and Checkpoints Authority The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (Abbreviation: ICA; Chinese: 移民与关卡局) is a department under the Ministry of Home Affairs in Singapore. The organisation is in charge of immigration, Singapore passports, identity cards, permanent residents services, customs, issuing permits to foreigners such as social visit pass, professional visit pass, visas and student passes.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 The Immigration and Nationality Act amendments of 1965 (Public Law 236 of the 89th Congress, also known as the Hart-Celler Act or the INS Act of 1965) abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924. It was proposed by Emanuel Celler and heavily supported by Senator Ted Kennedy.
Immigration and Naturalization Service The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a part of the United States Department of Justice and handled legal and illegal immigration and naturalization. It ceased to exist as a whole entity on March 1 2003.
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias, , is a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a Guatemalan man seeking asylum in the United States as a result of forced conscription in a guerilla army did not establish persecution on account of political opinion, a legal requirement for asylum.
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) is an independent administrative tribunal. The IRB is responsible for applying the Canadian federal Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and for making decisions on immigration and refugee matters.
Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) is an Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed in 2002 as bill C-11, which replaced the Immigration Act of 1976 as the primary federal legislation regulating Immigration to Canada.
Immigration Act of 1917 On February 5, 1917, Congress forcibly passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's December 14, 1916 veto. This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to, “idiots,” “feeble-minded persons,” “epileptics,” “insane persons,” alcoholics, “professional beggars,” all persons “mentally or physically defective,” polygamists, and anarchists.
Immigration Act of 1924 The Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the National Origins Act or the Johnson-Reed Act, is a United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act.
Immigration Act, 1976 A new Immigration Act in Canada was created in 1978 which was named the Immigration Act of 1976. This Act gave more power to the provinces to set their own immigration laws, and defined "prohibited classes" in much broader terms.
Immigration Advisory Program The Immigration Advisory Program (IAP), based on a program developed for the former INS originally known as the Immigration Security Initiative, is a pilot developed by Customs and Border Protection, which appropriated $2,000,000 in fiscal year 2005. The IAP teams at two European airports prevent undesirable people from traveling to the US.
Immigration detention Immigration detention is the policy of holding certain groups of unauthorised arrivals in detention until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure. Mandatory detention is the practice of compulsorily detaining or imprisoning people seeking political asylum, or who are considered to be illegal immigrants or unauthorised arrivals into a country.
Immigration in Bhutan The earliest surviving records of Bhutan’s history show that Tibetan influence already existed from the 6th century. King Songtsen Gampo who ruled Tibet from 627-649AD was responsible for the construction of Bhutan’s oldest surviving Buddhist temples, the Kyichhu Lhakhang in Paro and the Jambay Lhakhang in Bumthang <Aris>.
Immigration Man Immigration Man is a song recorded by David Crosby and Graham Nash as a duo, from 1972. It was released as a single and was also the closing track on Crosby and Nash's first duo album, Graham Nash/David Crosby.
Immigration policy An immigration policy is any policy of a state that affects the transit of persons across its borders, but especially those that intend to work and to remain in the country. Immigration policies can range from isolationism, where no migration at all is allowed, to free immigration, where most forms of migration are allowed.
Immigration reduction Immigration reduction refers to movements active within the United States that advocate a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into the United States or other countries. This can include a reduction in the numbers of legal immigrants, advocating for stronger action to be taken to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country, and reductions in non-immigrant temporary work visas (such as H-1B and L-1 in the United States).
Immigration Restriction Act 1901 The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 was an Act of the Parliament of Australia which limited immigration to Australia and formed the basis of the White Australia policy. It also provided for illegal immigrants to be deported.
Immigration Rules The Immigration Rules of the United Kingdom are laid down by Parliament and provide the framework within which entry to the United Kingdom is administered. The requirements for Leave to Enter or Leave to Remain under different categories of the Rules are provided as well as providing an authority for Refusing Leave to Enter or Remain.
Immigration to Australia Immigration to Australia began at least 40,000 years ago, when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived via the islands of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. Europeans began landing in the 1600s and 1700s, and the country was colonised by Great Britain in 1788.
Immigration to Bolivia Bolivia comparatively has experience far less immigration than its South American neighbors. Nevertheless, small groups of Germans, Spaniards, Italians, a small Yugoslavian community, and others live in the country.
Immigration to Brazil Immigration has been a very important demographic factor in the composition, structure and history of human population in Brazil, with all its attending factors and consequences, such as culture, economy, education, racial issues, etc. Brazil has received the second largest number of immigrants in the Western Hemisphere, together with the United States, Argentina, and Canada.
Immigration to Canada Immigration to Canada is the process by which people migrate to Canada and become nationals of the country. As Canada is a relatively new country, a formal immigration process has not been around for very long.
Immigration to Hong Kong Highly-skilled applicants or wealthy investors can apply for residency in Hong Kong. Point tests for skill applicants and economic contribution by investors were recently introduced by the Immigration Department of Hong Kong.
Immigration to Mexico Over the centuries, Mexico has received immigrants from the Americas, Europe, and Asia but not to the extent of other countries in the Americas such as the United States, Brazil, or Canada. Today, millions of their descendants still live in the country and can be found working in different industries.
Immigration to the United Kingdom (1922-present day) Since the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1922 there has been substantial immigration from other parts of the world. In particular, migrants have arrived from Ireland and the former colonies of the British Empire - such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, Kenya and Hong Kong - under British nationality law.
Immigration to the United States Immigration to the United States of America is the movement of non-residents to the United States, and has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the American history even though the foreign born have never been more than 15% of the population since about 1675. The economic, social and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding race, ethnicity, religion, economic benefits, job growth, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, levels of criminality, nationalities, political loyalties, moral values, and work habits.
Immigration to Turkey Turkey is a country shaped and defined by immigration. Since the 19th century, an exodus by the large portion of Turkish (Turkic) and Muslim peoples (who are termed "Muhacir" under a general definition) from the Balkans (Balkan Turks, Albanians, Bosniaks), Caucasus (Abkhazians, Ajarians, 'Circassians', Chechens), Crimea (Crimean Tatar diaspora), Crete (Cretan Turks), Central Asia and even Africa took refuge in present-day Turkey and moulded the country's fundamental features.
Immigration voice Immigration Voice is a non-profit organization working to alleviate the problems faced by legal high-skilled foreign workers in the United States pursuing legal permanent residency, also known as the green card. Immigration Voice acts as an interface between these immigrants and the legislative and executive branches of the government.
Imminent threat "Imminent threat" is a standard criterion in international law, developed by Daniel Webster, for when the need for action is "instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." In such a case, he argued, the use of force in self-defense is justified.
Immirzi parameter The Immirzi parameter (also known as the Barbero-Immirzi parameter) is a numerical coefficient appearing in loop quantum gravity, a nonperturbative theory of quantum gravity. The Immirzi parameter measures the size of the quantum of area in Planck units.
Immobiliser An immobiliser or immobilizer is an electronic device fitted to an automobile which prevents the engine from running unless the correct key (or other token) is present. This prevents the car from being "hot wired" after entry has been achieved.
Immobilization Immobilization in soil science, is when organic matter decomposes and is absorbed by micro-organisms, therefore preventing it being accessible to plants Principles and Practices of Soil Science, the soil as a natural resource (4th edition), R.E.
Immodest Proposals Immodest Proposals is a collection of 33 science fiction stories written by William Tenn, the first of two volumes presenting Tenn's complete body of science fiction writings. It features an introduction by Connie Willis.
Immoidea Immidae is a family of pantropical moths sometimes placed in its own superfamily Immoidea containing around 250 species. Many are brightly coloured and dayflying, comprising the genera Moca, Imma, Bursadella and Birthana.
Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 is the title of a 1994 non fiction book by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs, that won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction. The book covers European exploitation cinema with profiles of Jesus Franco, José Larraz, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Rollin, Walerian Borowczyk and Jose Bénazéraf.
Immoral Traffic in Persons Act The Immoral Traffic Persons (Prevention) Act or PITA is a bit of legislation passed in India in 1956 as a result of the India signing the United Nations' declaration in 1950 in New York on the suppression of trafficking. The act was then called the All India Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act (SITA), but was amended in 1986 to the current law.
Immorality Act The Immorality Act was one of the most controversial legislative acts of South African Apartheid. It attempted to forbid intermixing of couples of different race both in the area of marriage as well as casual sex.
Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-shin Immortal Admiral Yi Sun-shin or Immortal Yi Soon-shin (informal US title) is a Korean television show based on the life of Admiral Yi Sun-shin. It was first broadcast in August 2004 in Korea and later in the United States near the end of August.
Immortal Beloved (Doctor Who audio) Immortal Beloved is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 21 January 2007.
Immortal losing game A chess game between the Soviet grandmaster David Bronstein and Bogdan Sliwa of Polandis referred to as the "Immortal Losing Game". It is so called because Bronstein, in a completely lost position, set a series of elegant traps in an attempt to swindle] a victory from a lost game, although Sliwa deftly avoided Bronstein's traps and won.
Immortal Records Immortal Records is an independent record label out of Los Angeles, California. Founded by Happy Walters in 1994, the label has launched the careers of such influential acts as Korn, Incubus and 30 Seconds to Mars over the years.
Immortal Woman He Named He Qiong (何瓊 hé qióng), Immortal Woman He or He Xiangu (何仙姑 in pinyin: hé xiān gū) or Ho Hsien-ku in Wade-Giles, is the only female deity of the Eight Immortals. (The gender of her fellow Immortal Lán Cǎihé is somewhat ambiguous).
Immortel (Ad Vitam) Immortel (Ad Vitam) is a 2004 English language, but French-produced science fiction film, directed by artist Enki Bilal and based upon his graphic novel La Foire aux immortels (The Carnival of Immortals). The film combines live action footage with computer animation, and received mixed reviews.

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