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Papo Newman Francisco 'Papo' Newman participated in the murder of the Puerto Rican television entertainer Luis Vigoreaux on January 17, 1983. Newman was arrested, confessed to the crime, and testified against his accomplices in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Papoose *A papoose (from the Algonquian papoos, meaning "child") is an English loanword whose present meaning is "an American Indian child" (regardless of tribe). The word came originally from the Narragansett.
Pappas Telecasting Companies Pappas Telecasting Companies is a diversely organized broadcasting company headquartered in Visalia, California. Founded in 1971, it is one of the largest privately held broadcasting companies in the country, with its stations reaching over 15% of all U.
PappaWheelie PappaWheelie is the nom de plume of a music journalist, music producer, and DJ, perhaps best known as the Miami Bass historian. Despite being mostly known for this one genre of music, he is an accomplished music historian on all fronts, known in some circles for his extensive music archive arranged by era and genre, all in chronological order, with recordings dating back to 1877.
Papplewick Pumping Station Papplewick Pumping Station, based in the picturesque Nottinghamshire village of Papplewick, was built between 1881 and 1885 as a means of pumping water from the Bunter sandstone to provide drinking water to the City of Nottingham. The building has outstanding cast iron fittings and stained glass which are much admired.
Papponymic A papponymic is a personal name based on the name of one's grandfather, similar to how a patronymic name is one derived form the name of one's father. Papponym's have been common in a number of societies such as Hellenic Greece and Ancient Israel.
Pappus Pappus, in a composite flower, is the element of the individual disk and ray flowers that surrounds the flower structure, in the same manner at the base as calyx does in a non-compound flower. Pappuses may be like bristles, teeth or scales and are usually too diminutive to discern without some type of magnification device.
Pappus configuration In projective geometry, the Pappus configuration consists of a pair ((A,B,C), (D,E,F)) of triplets of points, which pair is located either on a pair of lines or on two sides of a conic section, with a hexagon AECDBF defined on the points, and a collinear triplet of intersections of opposite sides (e.g AE and DB) of the hexagon.
Pappus graph In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Pappus graph is a 3-regular graph with 18 vertices and 27 edges, formed as the Levi graph of the Pappus configuration. It is a distance-regular graph, one of only 14 such cubic graphs according to Cubic symmetric graphs (The Foster Census).
Pappus's centroid theorem Pappus's centroid theorem (also known as the Guldinus theorem, Pappus-Guldinus theorem or Pappu's theorem) is the name of two related theorems dealing with the surface areas and volumes of surfaces and solids of revolution.
Pappus's hexagon theorem Pappus's hexagon theorem (attributed to Pappus of Alexandria) states that given one set of collinear points A, B, C, and another set of collinear points a, b, c, then the intersection points x, y, z of line pairs Ab and aB, Ac and aC, Bc and bC are collinear. (Collinear means the points are incident on a line.
Pappy Boyington Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC, (December 4, 1912 - January 11, 1988) was an American fighter ace. Boyington flew initially with the American Volunteer Group ("The Flying Tigers") in the Republic of China Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Pappy's Fun Club Pappy's Fun Club is an English sketch-comedy team consisting of comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby, Brendan Dodds and Tom Parry, and featuring guest contributions from Steve Purcell and others. The team perform regularly on the London comedy circuit.
Pappyland Pappyland was a children's live action television show that began on September 1, 1994 and ended a few years later. The show starred Michael Cariglio as Pappy Drewitt, an artist/49er type character who lived in a magical cabin in a bizarre land with many different creatures and people.
Papri chaat Papri Chaat or Paapri Chaat is a north Indian fast food. Chaat, an Indic word which literally means lick, is used to describe a range of snacks and fast food dishes; papri refers to crispy fried dough wafers made from flour and ghee.
Paprika (1991 film) Paprika is an Italian film from 1991 directed by Tinto Brass. The story follows the title character, a young girl who works as a prostitute in various brothels, losing any sense of self confidence and self-respect.
Papua (Indonesian province) Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising a majority part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands (see also Western New Guinea). The province originally covered the entire western half of New Guinea, but in 2003, the western portion of the province, on the Bird's Head Peninsula, was declared by Jakarta as a separate province named West Irian Jaya.
Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 replaced the old Papua Act 1906 in determining the status of Papua and New Guinea. It caused the administrations of the territory of Papua and the territory of New Guinea to be merged.
Papua Indonesia Air System Papua Indonesia Air System is an airline based in Biak, Papua, Indonesia. It was established in 2003 and started operations on 1 February 2003 and operates a cargo service between Jayapura and Wamena Flight International 12-18 April 2005.
Papua monitor The Papua monitor, Varanus salvadorii (also known as Salvadori's monitor, Crocodile monitor, or Artelia) is a little-studied monitor lizard that lives on the island of New Guinea. It is found in mangrove swamp and coastal rain forest in the south east of the island.
Papua New Guinea national rugby union team The Papua New Guinea national rugby union team represent Papua New Guinea in the sport of rugby union. They played their first international in 1966, defeating Vanuatu 47-3, though since then they have only played a small number of internationals.
Papua New Guinea National Soccer League Papua New Guinea National Soccer League (PNGNSL) is the top division of the Papua New Guinea Football Association in Papua New Guinea. It is a nation-wide 5-team semi-professional league and was formed in 2006.
Papua New Guinea stilt house Papua New Guinea stilt house is a unique architecture constructed by Motuans, a native inhabitant in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is a country with high mountains, forests, lowlands, swamps and coral beaches.
Papua New Guinea women's cricket team The Papua New Guinea women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of Papua New Guinea in international women's cricket matches. They made their international debut in September 2006, playing a three match series of one day games against Japan to decide which country would represent the East Asia/Pacific region in the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Ireland in 2007.
Papua New Guinean cricket team The national Cricket team of Papua New Guinea has Associate Member status at the International Cricket Council, of which it has been a member since 1973. It is part of that organisation's East Asia-Pacific development zone.
Papuacedrus Papuacedrus papuana is a species in the conifer family Cupressaceae, the sole species in the genus Papuacedrus. Some botanists do not consider this species as forming a distinct genus, but include it in the related genus Libocedrus.
Papuan epaulette shark The Papuan epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium freycineti, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around southern Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 7° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 146° E. Its length is up to 75 cm.
Papuan Hawk Owl The Papuan Hawk Owl, Uroglaux dimorpha is a medium-sized, sleek owl with a porportionately small head, long tail, and short, rounded wings. Its white facial disk is small and indistinct, with black streaks, and white eyebrows.
Papuan Hornbill The Papuan Hornbill, Aceros plicatus also known as Blyth's Hornbill, or Kokomo in local language, is a large, up to 91cm long, hornbill of forest canopy. The male has golden tan colored head, black plumage, reddish brown iris, pale blue orbital skin and white tail.
Papular mucinosis Papular mucinosis is a rare skin disease. Localized and disseminated cases are called papular mucinosis or lichen myxedematosus while generalized, confluent papular forms with sclerosis are called scleromyxedema.
Papunya Tula Papunya Tula, or Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, is an artists' cooperative, formed in 1972 to market the paintings of a group of Aboriginal Australian men who had begun painting traditional designs using western art materials at the Papunya settlement, 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in Central Australia in 1971.
Papunya, Northern Territory Papunya (), is a small Indigenous Australian community of about 350 people roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is now home to a number of displaced Aboriginal people mainly from the Pintubi and Luritja tribes.
Papworth Everard Papworth Everard is the name of a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies ten miles west of Cambridge and six miles south of Huntingdon, having along its centre Ermine Street, the old North Road, the Roman highway that for centuries served as a major artery from London to York, which is now the A1198.
Papyrology Papyrology is the study of ancient literature as preserved in manuscripts written on papyrus, the most common form of paper in the Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds. Papyrology entails both the translation and interpretation of ancient documents in a variety of languages, as well as the care and preservation of the papyrus originals.
Papyrus Anastasi I Papyrus Anastasi I (officially designated papyrus British Museum 10247) is a satirical papyrus used for the training of scribes during the Ramesside Period. One scribe, an army scribe, Hori, writes to his fellow scribe, Amenemope, in such a way as to ridicule the irresponsible and second-rate nature of Amenemope's work.
Papyrus Harris I Papyrus Harris I is also known as the Great Harris Papyrus and (less accurately) simply the Harris Papyrus (though there are a number of other papyri in the Harris collection). Its technical designation is Papyrus British Museum 9999.
Papyrus sanitary pad A papyrus sanitary pad, or Makapad, is a sanitary napkin made from papyrus, a natural material. It is reported to be 75 per cent cheaper than a conventional pad and thus an advantage to the poor, as well as being highly absorbent.
Paquetá Island Paquetá Island (Portuguese: Ilha de Paquetá) is an island in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. The name of the island is a Tupi (Brazilian Indian language) word meaning "many shells", a reference to the plentiful shells on the island's beaches.
Paquisha War The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place in January-February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts that the Ecuadorian Army was setting up in the Comaina valley, to the east of the Condor mountain range, inside a disputed border area. The clash ended with a ceasefire, with the three bases destroyed and the Peruvian Army in control of most of the area.
Paquita la del Barrio Paquita la del Barrio is the stage name of Francisca Viveros Barradas, a Mexican singer of rancheras and other Mexican styles. Barradas was born in Alto Lucero, Veracruz, and started her career in Ciudad de MĂ©xico in 1970.
Par (command) The computer command par is part of the Unix operating system and is used in text formatting. The command effectively replaces white characters with space characters while revising word connections and line transitions for a more easily read text block.
Par (golf scoring format) This article is about the scoring system "Par", that is used in club golf as an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play. The Par (score) page provides a general definition of par on a golf hole.
Par meter A peak-to-average ratio meter (Par meter) is a device used to measure the ratio of the peak power level to the time-averaged power level in an electrical circuit. This quantity is known as the peak-to-average ratio (p/a r).
Par railway station Par Station serves the village and port of Par, Cornwall, UK it is also the junction for the Atlantic Coast Line to Newquay. The station is operated by First Great Western as is every other station in Cornwall.
Par-T-One Par-t-one is Italian Electroclash band led by Sergione Casu and Andrea Pareo. apart from releasing only one single The INXS Just Keep Walking Remake I'm So Crazy, they have also been sought after as remixers and House DJs.
Para (Bengali) Para is a Bengali word which means a neighbourhood or locality, usually characterised by a strong sense of community. The names of several localities in the cities and villages of West Bengal, Bangladesh and Tripura end with the suffix Para.
Para Commandos Para Commandos are an elite special forces unit of the Indian Army. Formed in June 1966, the Para Commandos are considered to be among the best elite special force in the world along with MARCOS(naval special forces).
Para Handy Para Handy, the anglicized Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, is a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro in a series of stories published in the Glasgow Evening News under the pen name of Hugh Foulis.
Para Hills Knights Para Hills Knights Soccer Club are a football (soccer) club from Para Hills, South Australia. The club plays in the FFSA South Australian Premier League and have their home ground at The Paddocks in Para Hills, north of Adelaide.
Para Para Para Para (Japanese: パラパラ; also "Para-Para" or "ParaPara") is a popular Japanese solo dance. Unlike most club dancing and rave dancing, there are specific, preset movements for each song, and everyone does the same moves at once, much like line dancing.
Para Para Paradise Para Para Paradise (パラパラパラダイス) is a video series, produced by AVEX Records, that shows various dancers doing Para Para. It featured the ParaPara AllStars - Richiyo "Richie" Watanabe, Satoko Yamazaki, Ryoko Odakura, Tomomi Kudo, Maki Koyata, and Miho Kawara.
Para rubber tree The Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), often simply called rubber tree, is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae and the most economically important member of the genus Hevea. It is of major economic importance because its sap-like extract (known as latex) can be collected and is the primary source of natural rubber.
Para Tattva Para Tattva is a Sanskrit phrase meaning “Supreme Truth,” as studied, realized, worshipped and revealed by the saints of India's Vedic tradition. The root tat is equivalent to the English word “that,” while the suffix -tva is used like our suffix “-ness,” giving a sense of “that-ness,” commonly understood as truth or principle.
Para Todas las Putas Celosas Para Todas las Putas Celosas is the second demo made by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets while they were still called Lozt Prophetz. This demo, unlike the first (Here Comes the Party) was never released, it had a much different sound to the first demo and didn't include the original rapping style.
Para-statals Para-statals or parastatals (from para- meaning mean something close or near, a prefix, and state), are fully or partially state-owned corporations or agencies. In centrally planned economies such entities are dominant.
ParaĂ­ba do Norte River The ParaĂ­ba do Norte River, also known simply as the ParaĂ­ba River, is a river in ParaĂ­ba state of northeastern Brazil. The river originates in the Borborema Plateau, and it flows northeast to empty into the Atlantic Ocean north of JoĂŁo Pessoa, the state capital.
ParaĂ­ba do Sul The ParaĂ­ba do Sul, or simply termed ParaĂ­ba is a river in the south-east of Brazil. It flows 1,120 kilometres west to northeast from its source at the junction of the Paraitinga and Paraibuna rivers to the sea near Campos.
ParaĂ­ba Valley The ParaĂ­ba Valley (Portuguese: Vale do ParaĂ­ba) is a microregiĂŁo of the eastern part of the state of SĂŁo Paulo. It is located within rodovia Presidente Dutra (BR-101), between Rio De Janeiro and SĂŁo Paulo.
Parañaque City The City of Parañaque (pop. 449,811, 2000 Census), or simply Parañaque (Filipino: Lungsod ng Parañaque or Lungsod ng Palanyag), is one of the cities and municipalities that comprise Metro Manila in the Philippines.
Paraćin Paraćin (Параћин) is a town and municipality in Serbia, located in the valley of the Velika Morava river, north of Kruševac and southeast of Kragujevac, at . In 2003 the town has total population of 25,400.
Parabasalid The parabasalids are group of flagellate protozoa, most of which are symbiotic in animals. These include a variety of forms found in the guts of termites and cockroaches, many of which have symbiotic bacteria that help them digest wood.
Parabasis In Greek comedy, the parabasis (plural parabases) is a point in the play when all of the actors leave the stage and the chorus are left to address the audience directly. The chorus partially or completely abandon their dramatic role to talk to the audience on a topic completely irrelevant to the subject of the play.
Parabellum The word Parabellum is a word coined by German arms maker Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken and is derived from the Latin saying si vis pacem, para bellum, meaning If you want peace, Prepare for war. The term has been used in the naming of a number of cartridges:
Parable A parable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that illustrates a moral or religious lesson. It differs from a fable in excluding animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors that assume speech and other powers of mankind.
Parable of the broken window The parable of the broken window was created by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen) to illuminate the notion of hidden costs (a.k.
Parable of the Faithful Servant The Parable of the Faithful Servant is a parable of Jesus found in the Gospel of Luke with parallels found in Mark () and Matthew () and the Gospel of Thomas (Thomas 21). In Matthew and Mark it is used as part of the Olivet discourse.
Parable of the Growing Seed The Parable of the Growing Seed is a parable found in the Gospel of Mark () and partly in that of Thomas (Thomas 21d). Its fragmentary presence in Thomas makes it plausible for it to have ultimately derived from the Q Gospel, though it is unusual for it not to also be present in either the Gospel of Matthew or that of Luke.
Parable of the Talents The Parable of the Talents (sometimes just the Parable of Talents) is a parable of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew (). It was told to illustrate the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven, and that diligence in carrying out one's responsibilities is essential for more important tasks in the future.
Parable of the Unjust Judge The Parable of the Unjust Judge or the Parable of the Importunate Widow is a parable of Jesus found in the Gospel of Luke, 18:1-9. It concerns a judge "who did not fear God, neither did he care for people.
Parable of the Unmerciful Servant The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Parable of the Unforgiving Official) was given by Jesus in the New Testament (Matthew). The moral seems to be: "Do onto others as you would wish them do onto you".
Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen is a parable that, according to the Gospels of Luke (), Mark (), Matthew (), and Thomas (saying 65-66), was told by Jesus. Thomas, as usual, provides no narrative context, but the Synoptic Gospels state that it was one of the teachings given to the people present in the Temple during the final week before the death of Jesus.
Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders was given by Jesus in the New Testament. The central theme of Christ as a firm and sure foundation (the rock) is echoed in the writings of the apostles and even to this day by artists and interpreters of the Bible.
Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard or the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard (Parable of the Generous Employer) was given by Jesus in the New Testament (Matthew). In it Jesus says that any "laborer" who accepts the invitation to the Kingdom of Heaven, no matter how late in the day, will receive an equal reward with those who have been faithful the longest.
Parables of Jesus The Parables of Jesus are a collection of parables told by Jesus that embody much of his teaching and are recorded in the four Gospels. Among Christians they are the best known examples of stories referred to as parables, and so form the prototype for the term parable.
Parabola The parabola (from the Greek: παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a right circular conical surface and a plane parallel to a generating straight line of that surface. A parabola can also be defined as locus of points in a plane which are equidistant from a given point (the focus) and a given line (the directrix).
Parabolic aluminized reflector light A Parabolic Aluminized Reflector luminare, or PAR light, is a stage lighting fixture widely used in theatre, concerts and motion picture production when a substantial amount of flat lighting is required for a scene.
Parabolic antenna The parabolic antenna is a high-gain reflector antenna used for radio, television and data communications, and also for radiolocation (RADAR), on the UHF and SHF parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. The relatively short wavelength of electromagnetic (radio) energy at these frequencies allows reasonably sized reflectors to exhibit the very desirable highly directional response for both receiving and transmitting.
Parabolic fractal distribution In the parabolic fractal distribution, the logarithm of the frequency or size of entities in a population is a quadratic polynomial of the logarithm of the rank. This can markedly improve the fit over a simple power-law relationship (see external link below).
Parabolic reflector A parabolic reflector (also see Parabolic trough), known as a parabolic dish or a parabolic mirror, is a reflective device, formed in the shape of a paraboloid of revolution. Parabolic reflectors can either collect or distribute energy such as light, sound, or radio waves.
Paraboloidal coordinates Paraboloidal coordinates are a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system (lambda, mu, nu) that generalizes the two-dimensional parabolic coordinate system. Unlike most three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate systems that feature quadratic coordinate surfaces, the paraboloidal coordinate system is not produced by rotating or projecting any two-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system.
Parabuthus transvaalicus Parabuthus transvaalicus (common names include black spitting thicktail scorpion, South African fattail scorpion, South African giant fat tail and South African spitting scorpion) is one of the largest scorpions in the family Buthidae.
Paracanthurus hepatus The blue tang, palette surgeonfish, regal tang, hippo tang, Indo-Pacific tang, flagtail surgeonfish or blue surgeonfish, Paracanthurus hepatus, is a fish often found in marine aquaria, the only member of the genus Paracanthurus. It has a royal blue body, yellow tail, and black 'palette' design.
Paracas culture The Paracas culture was an important Andean society between approximately 750 BCE and 100 CE that developed in the Paracas Peninsula, located in what today is the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region. Most of our information about the lives of the Paracas people comes from excavations at the large seaside Paracas necropolis, first investigated by the Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello in the 1950s.
Paracas Peninsula Paracas is the name of a desert peninsula located in the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region, on the south coast of Peru. It was home to the Paracas culture, an important Andean society between approximately 750 BCE and 100 CE.
Paracaspase Paracaspases (human: MALT1) are related to caspases present in animals and slime mold, in contrast to metacaspases which are present in plants, fungi and "protists"are more similar to caspases than metacaspases are, indicating that this group of (putative) proteases diverged from caspases from a common metacaspase ancestor. The phylogenetic distribution is a bit confusing, since slime mold diverged earlier than the animal/fungal split.
Paracatu River The Paracatu River (Rio Paracatu in Portuguese) is located mainly in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It is the longest tributary of the São Francisco, draining a basin of about 45,000 km², including 21 municipalities and the Federal District.
Paracel Islands The Paracel Islands (; ) are a group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea and part of the South China Sea Islands, about one-third of the way from Vietnam to the Philippines. The Paracel Islands have been controlled and administered by the People's Republic of China since 1974, but other neighboring countries also lay claim to the islands.
Paracelsianism Paracelsianism was a medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus. It was prominent in late-16th and 17th century Europe and represented one of the most comprehensive alternatives to the traditional system of therapeutics derived from Galenic physiology.
Paracelsus Paracelsus (11 November or 17 December 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland - 24 September 1541) was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Born Phillip von Hohenheim, he later took up the name Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, and still later took the title Paracelsus, meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", a Roman physician from the first century CE.
Paracetamol Paracetamol (INN) (IPA: ) or acetaminophen (USAN), is a common analgesic and antipyretic drug that is used for the relief of fever, headaches, and other minor aches and pains. Paracetamol is also useful in managing more severe pain, allowing lower dosages of additional non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or opioid analgesics to be used, thereby minimizing overall side-effects.
Paracinema Paracinema is an academic term to refer to a wide variety of film genres out of the mainstream, bearing the same relationship to 'legitimate' film as paraliterature like comic books and pulp fiction bears to literature. The term was coined by Jeffrey Sconce, an American media scholar, and elaborated upon by Joan Hawkins.
Paraclausithyron Paraclausithyron is a motif in Greek and especially Augustan love elegy, in which the speaker as lover stands outside the beloved's locked door and complains that he cannot get in. Catullus (67) engages the door in dialogue; Horace offers a less-than-serious lament in Odes 3.
Paraclete Paraclete comes from the Koine Greek word (Parakletos) (Strong's G3875) meaning "one who consoles - a comforter" or "one who intercedes on our behalf - an advocate". According to Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature: "the technical meaning 'lawyer', 'attorney' is rare.
Paracompact space In mathematics, a paracompact space is a topological space in which every open cover admits an open locally finite refinement. (Paracompact spaces are often required to be Hausdorff, but we will not make that assumption in this article.
Paraconsistent logic A paraconsistent logic is a logical system that attempts to deal with contradictions in a discriminating way. Alternatively, paraconsistent logic is the subfield of logic that is concerned with studying and developing paraconsistent (or "inconsistency-tolerant") systems of logic.
Paracosm A paracosm is an imagined, detailed fantasy world invented by a child or perhaps an adult, involving humans and/or animals, or perhaps even fantasy or alien creations. Often having its own geography, history, and language, it is an experience that continues over a long period of time: months or even years.
Paracoumaryl alcohol Paracoumaryl alcohol, also called p-coumaryl alcohol, 4-coumaryl alcohol, 4-hydroxycinnamyl alcohol, or 4-(3-hydroxy-1-propenyl)phenol, is a phytochemical, one of the monolignols. It is synthetized via the phenylpropanoid biochemical pathway.
Paracrine signalling Paracrine signalling is a form of cell signalling in which the target cell is close to ("para" = alongside of or next to, but this strict prefix definition is not meticulously followed here) the signal releasing cell, and the signal chemical is broken down too quickly to be carried to other parts of the body.
Paracyclotosaurus Paracyclotosaurus was a giant temnospondyl amphibian with a flat body, similar to today's salamander - but very much larger. Although it could live on dry land, Paracyclotosaurus probably spent most of its time in water.
Parada de Rubiales Parada de Rubiales is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 28 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 340 people.

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