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Utopia Planitia Utopia Planitia is the Martian location where the Viking 2 Mars lander arrived and first explored on September 3, 1976. The lander's Camera 1 provided a photograph of the landing site (seen at right), which was later given the following caption:
Utopia, Northern Territory Utopia is an aboriginal homeland formed by the amalgamation of the former Utopia pastoral lease with a tract of unalienated land to its north, in November 1978. It covers an area of 3500 square kilometres, transected by the Sandover River, and lies on a traditional boundary of the Alyawarra and Anmatjirra people, the two language groups which predominate there today.
Utopia, Queens Utopia, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens is bordered by Utopia Parkway to the west, 188th Street to the east, Union Turnpike to the south, and 73rd Avenue to the north. It adjoins the neighborhoods of Jamaica Estates, Hillcrest, and Fresh Meadows.
Utopian anarchism Utopian anarchism is a system of coordination in which the main goal, or goals, of the freely formed group are clearly laid out and focused upon, making all other aspects of life guided to further advancement towards these goals. The philosophy implies that without clear conscious thought on the "meaning of life", satisfaction shall never truly be achieved.
Utopian Anarchism Utopian Anarchism is a system of coordination in which the main goal/goals of the freely formed group are clearly laid out and focused upon, making all other aspects of life guided to further advancement toward these goals. The philosophy implies that without clear conscious thought on the "meaning of life," satisfaction shall never truly be achieved.
Utopian socialism Utopian socialism is a term used to define the first currents of modern Socialist thought. Although it is technically possible for any person living at any time in history to be a utopian socialist, the term is most often applied to those utopian socialists who lived in the first quarter of the 19th century.
Utopolis Kirchberg The Utopolis Kirchberg is a multiplex cinema in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, owned and operated by the Utopia Group. It is located on the Avenue John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the Kirchberg quarter, in the north-east of the city.
Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutt (Bangla: উত্পল দত্ত) (March 29, 1929, Barisal in the erstwhile Undivided Bengal (now in Bangladesh)- August 19, 1993, Calcutta, India) was an Indian actor, director and writer. He studied English literature at the St.
Utraquism Utraquism (from the Latin sub utraque specie, meaning "in both kinds") was a dogma first proposed by Jacob of Mies in 1414. It maintained that the Eucharist should be administered "in both kinds" — as both bread and wine — to all the congregation, including the laity.
Utrecht (agglomeration) The city of Utrecht and the surrounding cities, villages, and townships form an agglomeration in the middle of The Netherlands. The area is located in the province of Utrecht, and is part of the larger Randstad urban area.
Utrecht (province) Utrecht () is the smallest province of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country. It is bordered by the Eemmeer in the north, Gelderland in the east, the river Rhine in the south, South Holland in the west, and North Holland in the northwest.
Utrecht Psalter The Utrecht Psalter is a ninth century illuminated psalter and an important product of Carolingian art. Produced at Rheims between 816 and 835, the Psalter was sponsored by the Archbishop Ebbo just before he was deposed.
Utrecht School The term Utrecht School refers to a group of painters of the Baroque school active in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands in the early part of the seventeenth century. They are also known as the Dutch or Utrecht Caravaggisti.
Utrecht School of the Arts The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU — Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht Dutch) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The institution has 570 teachers and staff members.
Utrecht Union The Union of Utrecht is a federation of Old Catholic Churches, not in communion with Rome, that seceded from the Roman Catholic Church over the issue of Papal infallibility. The Declaration of Utrecht solidified this movement in 1889.
Utrechtboog The Utrechtboog is a fly-over railway line in the south-east of Amsterdam, completed in March 2006, that directly connects Utrecht and Schiphol. After completion, it reduced journey times between the two by seven minutes.
Utrechtse Heuvelrug Utrechtse Heuvelrug is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It was formed on 1 January 2006 by combining the former municipalities of Amerongen, Doorn, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Leersum, and Maarn.
Utricularia amethystina Utricularia amethystina (or Florida Purple Bladderwort) is a variable species of terrestrial bladderwort native to Bolivia, Brasil, Guyana, Peru, and south-east Florida. The small flowers can be purple, lilac, white, bluish, cream, or bright yellow, and are also highly variable in size and shape.
Utricularia warburgii Utricularia warburgii is a species of terrestrial bladderwort found in China, where it grows in sunny wet meadows at an altitude of 900 m..Peter Krbez & Gerfried Deutsch; Utricularia warburgii Goebel - ein attraktiver terrestrischer Wasserschlauch aus China It belongs to the section nigrescentes and is closely related to U.
Utrn breakfast show This radio station is due to go live in the new year with a whole host of competitions exciting gossip, great music and chat. Two law students, Andy and Ian, at the University of Teesside are due to start a morning show, Monday to Friday 10-12.
Utstein Utstein Abbey (in Norwegian Utstein Kloster) is Norway's best preserved medieval monastery, founded in 1265 on the island of Mosterøy near Stavanger in the province of Rogaland. The monastery was closed down due to the lutheran reformation in 1537, and served as a manor house for a long time.
Utsul The Utsuls are a tiny ethnic group which lives on the Chinese island of Hainan, and are considered one of the People's Republic of China's undistinguished ethnic groups. They are thought to be descendants of Cham refugees who fled their homeland in what is now southern Vietnam to escape from Annamese invasion.
Utsumi Takeshi Utsumi Takeshi is a dedicated former Fulbright Scholar who has, for some decades, devoted himself to experimenting with and demonstrating the technology that can bring needed learning, health care and perhaps "peace to everyone on our planet." He is the founder and vice president for "Technology and Coordination" of the Global University System, and is the co-editor of a new book about that project, Global Peace Through The Global University System.
Utsunomiko Utsunomiko (宇宙皇ĺ - also Utsu no Miko) is a Japanese historical fantasy light novel series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川桂介) and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata, which was later adapted into an anime of the same title. The story is set in the late Asuka Period - Nara Period, and follows the trials of the titular character Utsunomiko (usually shortened to Miko,) the offspring of the kami of the north star.
Uttam Sarkar Uttam Kumar Sarkar is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for Dhaka Division in Bangladeshi domestic cricket. During the 2005–06 season, he also played for Security Express in the Corporate League and Kalabagan in the Premier League for clubs.
Uttama Seva Padakkama The Uttama Seva Padakkama () is presented to all ranks of the Regular Forces of the Sri Lankan military for valuable service and dedication to duty with the outstanding ability, merit and excellent conduct, given that they count not less than 15 years continuous and uninterrupted service and possess and perfectly flawless record of moral and military conduct.
Uttar Banga Sambad Uttar Banga Sambad (Bengali: উত্তর বঙ্গ সংবাদ) is a Bengali language broadsheet published from Siliguri. It is the largest circulating daily in North Bengal and have a share of about 80% out of all other dailies in the region.
Uttara (Dhaka) Uttara (Bengali:উত্তরা) (pronounced UT-to-ra) is a suburb several kilometres north of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. (The name derives from the Bengali word "uttor" meaning "north").
Uttara BhÄdrapadÄ Uttarabhadra (Devanagari: उत्तराŕ¤ŕ¤ľŕ¤¦ŕĄŤŕ¤°ŕ¤ľ) is the 26th nakshatra (Devanagari: नक्षत्र) or lunar mansion as used in Hindu astronomy and astrology. It belongs to the constellation Meena (Devanagari: मीन) or Pisces.
Uttara Kuru Kingdom Other than the Kurus of India ruled by the Pandavas and the Kauravas, there was this another kingdom called Uttara Kurus (Northern Kurus) to the north of Himalayas. Some historians identify this kingdom as Kyrgistan, a Central Asian Republic.
Uttarakhand Uttarakhand (Hindi]: उत्तराखंड), known as Uttaranchal from 2000 to 2006, became the 27th [[States and territories of India|state of the Republic of India on November 9, 2000. Uttarakhand borders Tibet (China) to the north and Nepal to the east, while its neighbour states are Himachal Pradesh to the west and Uttar Pradesh (of which it formed a part before 2000) in the south.
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal is a regional political party in India. It bills itself as the only regional party of the Uttarakhand Himalayas, in contrast to the national parties that dominate the region's politics.
Uttarakhand Solidarity Network The Uttarakhand Solidarity Network (USN), is at once an electronic network of individuals, a working committee, and a group of web sites dedicated to political, economic, environmental, cultural and social justice issues in the Uttarakhand region of India.
Uttarayana UttarÄyana (उत्तरायण) is the six month period between Makar Sankranti around (January 14) and Karka Sankranti around (July 14), when the Sun travels towards north on the celestial sphere. The period from July 14 to January 14 is known is DakshinÄyana (दक्षिणायण).
Uttarpara Govt. High School Uttarpara Government High School (also known as Uttarpara Rastriya Uchcha Vidyalaya) is a school situated in Uttarpara (Bengali: উত্তরপাড়া), a small town of Hooghly District, West Bengal, India.
Utter Access Forums Utter Access Forums is a popular online help forum dealing primarily with Microsoft Office products and relational database management systems. Utter Access is used by over 100,000 users around the world and in addition to professional help with problem solutions, users are able to download many sample applications, articles, and sample code.
Utter Inn Utter Inn or as in English, Otter Inn, is an art project by Mikael Genberg which offers an underwater accommodation for the public. The facility is entered through a typical Swedish red house located on the surface of the water.
Utterly Alone Utterly Alone (Lithuanian: Vienui Vieni) is a 2003 film directed by Jonas Vaitkus, based on real events, about Juozas Lukša (Daumantas), a Lithuanian partisan who fought against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in the years immediately following World War II. The film is set in 1950-51 and shot in black and white.
Utti Jaeger Regiment The Utti Jaeger Regiment (Finnish: Utin Jääkärirykmentti) is the Finnish Defence Forces training and development centre for special forces and helicopter operations. It consists of about 500 personnel of which about 200 are conscripts.
Uttoxeter Canal The Uttoxeter Canal was a thirteen-mile extension of the Caldon Canal running from Froghall as far as Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It was opened around 1811 and is sometimes referred to as a branch of the Caldon Canal.
Uttu Uttu is the goddess of weaving and clothing. She is both the child of Enki and Ninkur, and she bears seven new child/trees from Enki, the eighth being the Ti (Tree of "Life", associated with the "Rib").
Utuado, Puerto Rico Utuado is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central/western mountainous region of the island known as La Cordillera Central. It is located north of Adjuntas and Ponce; south of Hatillo and Arecibo; east of Lares; and west of Ciales and Jayuya.
Utupua-Vanikoro languages The Utupua-Vanikoro languages are a hypothetical branch of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages (CEO). No known shared innovations unite the two component families, which therefore may be independent branches of CEO.
Utupurshi of Diauehi Utupurshi was a king of the ancient people of Diauehi (Daiaeni) in northeastern Anatolia (circa 810 BC-770 BC). Defeated and subdued by the Urartian king Menuas (810-785 BC), he later revolted against Argishtis I (785-763 BC), but was again defeated and had to cede several provinces to Urartu and to pay an annual tribute.
Utusan Malaysia Utusan Malaysia (formerly known as "Utusan Melayu") is a Malay language newspaper in Malaysia that was launched and printed in Singapore on May 29, 1939 to cater to the Jawi-literate in then British Malaya. It became an influential medium for the populace to voice their opinions towards the colonial government in pre-independence Malaya.
Utz (file format) The UTZ (file format), format used by Symbian OS devices to store user interface themes. A UTZ file is a ZIP file container consisting of one XML file describing the user interface layout and a collection of resources like PNG graphics and mp3 sounds.
Utz Kapeh Utz Kapeh, â€good coffee’ in an old Mayan language from Guatemala, is the largest coffee certification program worldwideCoffee Network Organisational ProfileUtz Kapeh Website. Utz Kapeh is a foundation for world-wide implementation of a baseline standard for responsible coffee growing and sourcing.
UT 512L OPV The UT 512L OPV design is a Rolls Royce design for a new Icelandic Coast Guard ship which is set to replace the aging V/s Ă“Ă°inn. The construction of the ship was approved by the Icelandic government on December 1 2006.
UT Air UT Air is an airline based in Khanty Mansiysk, Tyumen, Russia. It operates scheduled domestic passenger services, charter flights and helicopter activities in support of the oil and gas industry in Siberia, and relief operations for the United Nations.
UT Cougars The UT Cougars are one of the original four British Collegiate American Football League (BCAFL) teams which began play in the 1985-86 season (along with Hull, Newcastle and the now-defunct Manchester). The Cougars were one of the more successful teams in the early BCAFL, winning two straight college bowls in 1990 & 1991.
UT TeleCampus The UT TeleCampus (UTTC), launched in 1998, works with all 15 University of Texas System institutions to build and deliver collaborative online courses, degree programs and support services. Students may complete most online degree programs or courses entirely from a distance.
UT1 (Ukraine) UT1, currently marketed as "First National" () is the main state-run television channel in Ukraine, operated by the National Television Company of Ukraine. It is broadcast through all the country's territory.
UTA 70 Class UTA 70 Class was a multiple unit train built for service on Northern Ireland s railways. The MED’s and MPD’s, which made use of readily available power and transmission units, were cheap to operate but noisier and not as uncomfortable as locomotive - hauled rolling stock, a fact which made them unsuitable for Inter - City journeys.
UTA AEC Following the end of WW2 most railways, throughout the world, were looking to either update their fleet of steam locomotives with new and more economical designs or look towards alternatives, which for many meant a programme of dieselisation. The main considerations were the rising cost of coal against diesel oil and the weight of the trains causing wear and tear on the track.
UTA Flight 772 Union des Transports AĂ©riens Flight 772 was a flight of a French airline which was scheduled to fly from the former Congo-Brazzaville, to N'Djamena in Chad, and then to Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris.
UTA MED The Ulster Transport Authority Multi-Engined Diesel (UTA MED) was an early diesel powered railcar, used in Northern Ireland. The 12-mile Belfast-Bangor railway line had a well used passenger service and, being devoid of goods traffic, was chosen as the testing ground for the diesel railcar era.
UTA MPD The Ulster Transport Authority Multi-Purpose Diesel (UTA MPD) was a diesel powered railcar, used in Northern Ireland. It was developed by the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) as a progression of the earlier Multi-engined Diesel (MED).
UTA TRAX Sandy/Salt Lake Line The Sandy/Salt Lake Line is a line in the TRAX light rail system in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It is the first line in the TRAX system; the line opened from downtown Salt Lake City, going through South Salt Lake, Murray, and Midvale en route to Sandy on December 4, 1999, opening one year ahead of schedule after two years of construction.
UTA TRAX University Line The University Line is a line in the TRAX light rail system in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It is the second line in the TRAX system, after the Sandy/Salt Lake Line, and is named for the University of Utah, which is where the line ends.
UTEC UTEC was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s. It was one of the first working computers in the world, although only built in a prototype form while awaiting funding for expansion into a full-scale version.
UTF-1 UTF-1 is a way of transforming ISO 10646/Unicode into a stream of bytes. Due to the design it is not possible to resynchronise if decoding starts in the middle of a character (this makes truncation hard among other things) and simple byte-oriented search routines cannot be reliably used with it.
UTF-32/UCS-4 UTF-32 and UCS-4 are alternate names for a method of encoding Unicode characters, using the fixed amount of exactly 32 bits for each Unicode code point. It can be regarded as the simplest encoding form, as all other Unicode Transformation Formats have variable-length encodings for various code points.
UTF-7 UTF-7 (7-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding that was proposed for representing Unicode-encoded text using a stream of ASCII characters, for example for use in Internet e-mail messages.
UTF-8 UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any universal character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF-8 is consistent with ASCII (requiring little or no change for software that handles ASCII but preserves other values).
UTF-9 and UTF-18 UTF-9 and UTF-18 (9- and 18-bit Unicode Transformation Format, respectively) were two April Fool's Day RFC joke specifications for encoding unicode on systems where the nonet (nine bit group) is a better fit for the native word size than the octet, such as the 36-bit PDP-10. Both encodings were specified in RFC 4042, written by Mark Crispin (inventor of IMAP) and released on April 1 2005.
UTFSF UTFSF is an initialism for "Use The Fucking Search Function." Usenet, discussion forums, and the like suffer from users who post requests for answers that have long been available through a search engine.
UTN - Facultad Regional Haedo The Facultad Regional Haedo or FRH is one of the faculties of the Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional of Argentina. It is situated in Haedo city of the Greater Buenos Aires in Argentina, and it offers academic degrees in the following subjects:
UTN - Facultad Regional Mendoza The Facultad Regional Mendoza or FRM is one of the faculties of the Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional of Argentina. It is situated in Mendoza the capital city of Mendoza in Argentina, and it offers academic degrees in the following subjects:
UTOC The University of Toronto Outing Club (UTOC) is an official student organization at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, patterned on traditional outing clubs in Europe and the United States. UTOC's mandate has been to provide students, faculty, and alumni with inexpensive access to outdoor activities and support outdoor recreation throughout the university community.
UTOPIA (Bioinformatics tools) UTOPIA (User-friendly Tools for OPerating Informatics Applications) is a suite of free tools for visualising and analysing bioinformatics data. Based on an ontology-driven data model, it contains applications for viewing and aligning protein sequences, rendering complex molecular structures in 3D, and for finding and using resources such as web services and data objects.
UTP Records UTP Records (also known as UpTown Projects) is a record label, started by Juvenile in 2001 soon after leaving Cash Money Records. In 2004, Juvenile landed a joint venture with Rap-A-Lot Records and dropped the album "The Beginning of the End" with UTP members Wacko and Skip.
UTS Union UTS Union Limited is the peak service provider at the University of Technology, Sydney. It operates retail, fitness and catering services as well as Clubs and Societies, student publicatons and Orientation Day.
UTV Live UTV Live is the flagship news programme in the UTV region in Northern Ireland. The first edition of UTV Live was transmitted on 4 January 1993, replacing the main evening bulletin Six Tonight and shorter bulletins Ulster Newstime.
UTV plc UTV plc (also referred to as the UTV Group) is a broadcasting and New Media company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Its main operation is the ITV (Channel 3) franchise for Northern Ireland, and it is also the owner of UTV Radio, which operates the UK Independent National Radio station talkSPORT, along with several radio stations in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
UTV-EMAP Stoke-on-Trent UTV-EMAP Stoke-on-Trent is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves the Stoke-on-Trent area. It is jointly owned by UTV (70%) and EMAP (30%) The service launched on 30th April 2004 .
Uub (Dragon Ball) Uub is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series and the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT anime series. He is a Human, and due to being the reincarnation of Kid Buu, his name is a result of reversing Buu.
Uuencoding Uuencoding is a form of binary to text encoding that originated in the Unix program uuencode, for encoding binary data for transmission over the uucp mail system. The name "uuencoding" is derived from "Unix-to-Unix encoding".
Uunartoq Qeqertoq Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for "The Warming Island", is a newly discovered island off the east central coast of Greenland. It was attached to the mainland by glacial ice until recently when the ice shelves began retreating rapidly in this area.
Uunijuusto Uunijuusto is a Finnish dish made from cow's beestings, the first milk of a calved cow, by adding a pinch of salt (some 0.5 grams per a litre of milk) and by baking the milk in an oven (30 minutes in 150 degrees Celsius, and for a few moments in 250 degrees to get the color).
Uuno Turhapuro Uuno Turhapuro (Numbskull Emptybrook) is a Finnish comedy character created by Spede Pasanen and played by Vesa-Matti Loiri. Originally appeared in Spede Show during 1971–1973, the character gained popularity through the Uuno Turhapuro films.
Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army) is a 1984 Finnish comedy and the ninth film in the Uuno Turhapuro film series starring Vesa-Matti Loiri as the title character, Spede Pasanen as the potty-mouthed mechanic Härski Hartikainen, and Simo Salminen as their constant companion Sörsselssön. It is to date the highest-grossing Finnish comedy and not too surprisingly the most well-known in the Turhapuro series.
Uusimaa (constituency) Uusimaa is a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative regions of Uusimaa and Eastern Uusimaa, excluding the city of Helsinki, which forms its own constituency (see Helsinki (constituency)).
Uutisvuoto Uutisvuoto (Finnish for "news leak") is the Finnish version of the popular British television quiz show Have I Got News For You. Going out on Saturday nights on Yleisradio TV1 since 1998, the show receives very high viewing figures.
Uv tube The UV Tube is a design concept for providing inexpensive water disinfection to people in poor countries. The concept is based the ability of ultraviolet light to kill infectious agents by disrupting their DNA.
Uva Rebellion The Uva Rebellion, also known as the 'Great Rebellion of 1817-1818' (or the 3rd Kandyan War by the British) took place in Ceylon against the British colonial government under Governor Robert Brownrigg, which had been controlling the formerly independent Udarata (Sinhalese: Up-Country), of which Uva was a province.
Uvac The Uvac (Serbian Cyrillic: Увац) is the river in southwestern Serbia and Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 119 km long right and major tributary of the Lim, loosely making the northern border of the Sandžak/Raška region. Before it empties into the Lim, for a 10 kilometers it forms the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Uvarovite Uvarovite is a chromium bearing garnet: Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3. It was discovered in 1832 by Germain Henri Hess who named it after Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov (1765-1855), a Russian statesman and amateur mineral collector.
Uvas Canyon County Park Uvas Canyon County Park is part of the Santa Clara County Park System. This natural park is located in upper Uvas Canyon on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and has several small waterfalls, some of which flow perennially.
Uvdal Stave Church Uvdal Stave Church is situated at Uvdal in Nore and Uvdal municipality, which is in the valley Numedal in Norway. The stave church was originally constructed just after the year 1168Official dating by Riksantikvaren (Directorate of Cultural Heritage in Norway), which we know through dendrochronological dating of the pine tree used during the construction.
Uvedale Price Sir Uvedale Price (baptized April 14, 1747 – September 14, 1829), author of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared With The Sublime and The Beautiful (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesque debate' of the 1790s. Apart from the landscape and garden design debates described below, Price's theory resurfaced in architectural and urban design concepts of the mid-twentieth century, being a source of inspiration for the Townscape Movement conceived by Hugh de Cronin Hastings (aka Ivor de Wolfe), editor of the Architectural Review (UK), and his colleagues in 1949.
Uver River Uver () is a river in Novgorod Oblast of Russia, a right tributary of the Msta River. Uver starts from the Korobozha Lake at , north-east of Borovichi, then flows south, and joins the Msta at , between the settlements of Berezovsky Ryadok and Opechensky Posad.
Uvira Uvira is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located at 03°26′ S 29°08′ E and at the north end of Lake Tanganyika. It has a major port at Kalundu which provides links by boat to Kalemie, and to Kigoma in Tanzania.
Uvs Nuur Uvs Nuur Lake (in Mongolian language ĐŁĐ˛Ń ĐťŃŃŃ€ where "ĐťŃŃŃ€" is meaning "lake") is the largest lake in Mongolia, which, at 753 m above sea level, covers an area of 3,350 km². Its northeastern part is situated in the Tuva Republic of the Russian Federation.
Uvular fluttertonguing Uvular fluttertonguing Nora Post, Monophonic sound resources for the oboe: Part I - Timbre is a wind instrument technique where the instrumentalist performs and uvular trill to produce an effect like that of fluttertonguing. Uvular fluttertonguing is used when an alveolar trill cannot be produced.
Uvular-epiglottal consonant A uvular-epiglottal consonant is a doubly articulated consonant pronounced by making a simultaneous uvular consonant and epiglottal consonant. An example is the Somali "uvular" plosive /q/, which is actually a voiceless uvular-epiglottal plosive , as in 'to emit smoke'
Uvulariaceae Uvulariaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. This family is only rarely recognised, but was accepted by the Dahlgren system which placed it in order Liliales in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae [=monocotyledons] of class Magnoliopsida [=angiosperms].
UV Completion In theoretical physics, UV completion of a quantum field theory XY is another quantum field theory (or a more generalized theory) AB that reduces to XY below some energy scale (the cutoff of XY). However, AB must be, unlike XY, well-defined at arbitrarily high energies i.
UV fixed point A theory has a UV fixed point if its renormalization group flow runs towards a fixed point in the ultraviolet limit. Among other things, it means that such a theory is not an effective field theory because it is well-defined at arbitrarily small distance scales.
UV index The UV index is an international standard measurement of how strong the ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun is at a particular place on a particular day. It is a scale primarily used in daily forecasts aimed at the general public.
UV Stabilizers in plastics UV light stabilizers are used frequently plastics, including cosmetics and films. The primary function is to protect the substance from the long-term degradation effects from light, most frequently ultraviolet light.
Utopia, Northern Territory Utopia is an aboriginal homeland formed by the amalgamation of the former Utopia pastoral lease with a tract of unalienated land to its north, in November 1978. It covers an area of 3500 square kilometres, transected by the Sandover River, and lies on a traditional boundary of the Alyawarra and Anmatjirra people, the two language groups which predominate there today.
Utopia, Queens Utopia, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens is bordered by Utopia Parkway to the west, 188th Street to the east, Union Turnpike to the south, and 73rd Avenue to the north. It adjoins the neighborhoods of Jamaica Estates, Hillcrest, and Fresh Meadows.
Utopian anarchism Utopian anarchism is a system of coordination in which the main goal, or goals, of the freely formed group are clearly laid out and focused upon, making all other aspects of life guided to further advancement towards these goals. The philosophy implies that without clear conscious thought on the "meaning of life", satisfaction shall never truly be achieved.
Utopian Anarchism Utopian Anarchism is a system of coordination in which the main goal/goals of the freely formed group are clearly laid out and focused upon, making all other aspects of life guided to further advancement toward these goals. The philosophy implies that without clear conscious thought on the "meaning of life," satisfaction shall never truly be achieved.
Utopian socialism Utopian socialism is a term used to define the first currents of modern Socialist thought. Although it is technically possible for any person living at any time in history to be a utopian socialist, the term is most often applied to those utopian socialists who lived in the first quarter of the 19th century.
Utopolis Kirchberg The Utopolis Kirchberg is a multiplex cinema in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg, owned and operated by the Utopia Group. It is located on the Avenue John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the Kirchberg quarter, in the north-east of the city.
Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutt (Bangla: উত্পল দত্ত) (March 29, 1929, Barisal in the erstwhile Undivided Bengal (now in Bangladesh)- August 19, 1993, Calcutta, India) was an Indian actor, director and writer. He studied English literature at the St.
Utraquism Utraquism (from the Latin sub utraque specie, meaning "in both kinds") was a dogma first proposed by Jacob of Mies in 1414. It maintained that the Eucharist should be administered "in both kinds" — as both bread and wine — to all the congregation, including the laity.
Utrecht (agglomeration) The city of Utrecht and the surrounding cities, villages, and townships form an agglomeration in the middle of The Netherlands. The area is located in the province of Utrecht, and is part of the larger Randstad urban area.
Utrecht (province) Utrecht () is the smallest province of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country. It is bordered by the Eemmeer in the north, Gelderland in the east, the river Rhine in the south, South Holland in the west, and North Holland in the northwest.
Utrecht Psalter The Utrecht Psalter is a ninth century illuminated psalter and an important product of Carolingian art. Produced at Rheims between 816 and 835, the Psalter was sponsored by the Archbishop Ebbo just before he was deposed.
Utrecht School The term Utrecht School refers to a group of painters of the Baroque school active in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands in the early part of the seventeenth century. They are also known as the Dutch or Utrecht Caravaggisti.
Utrecht School of the Arts The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU — Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht Dutch) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The institution has 570 teachers and staff members.
Utrecht Union The Union of Utrecht is a federation of Old Catholic Churches, not in communion with Rome, that seceded from the Roman Catholic Church over the issue of Papal infallibility. The Declaration of Utrecht solidified this movement in 1889.
Utrechtboog The Utrechtboog is a fly-over railway line in the south-east of Amsterdam, completed in March 2006, that directly connects Utrecht and Schiphol. After completion, it reduced journey times between the two by seven minutes.
Utrechtse Heuvelrug Utrechtse Heuvelrug is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It was formed on 1 January 2006 by combining the former municipalities of Amerongen, Doorn, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Leersum, and Maarn.
Utricularia amethystina Utricularia amethystina (or Florida Purple Bladderwort) is a variable species of terrestrial bladderwort native to Bolivia, Brasil, Guyana, Peru, and south-east Florida. The small flowers can be purple, lilac, white, bluish, cream, or bright yellow, and are also highly variable in size and shape.
Utricularia warburgii Utricularia warburgii is a species of terrestrial bladderwort found in China, where it grows in sunny wet meadows at an altitude of 900 m..Peter Krbez & Gerfried Deutsch; Utricularia warburgii Goebel - ein attraktiver terrestrischer Wasserschlauch aus China It belongs to the section nigrescentes and is closely related to U.
Utrn breakfast show This radio station is due to go live in the new year with a whole host of competitions exciting gossip, great music and chat. Two law students, Andy and Ian, at the University of Teesside are due to start a morning show, Monday to Friday 10-12.
Utstein Utstein Abbey (in Norwegian Utstein Kloster) is Norway's best preserved medieval monastery, founded in 1265 on the island of Mosterøy near Stavanger in the province of Rogaland. The monastery was closed down due to the lutheran reformation in 1537, and served as a manor house for a long time.
Utsul The Utsuls are a tiny ethnic group which lives on the Chinese island of Hainan, and are considered one of the People's Republic of China's undistinguished ethnic groups. They are thought to be descendants of Cham refugees who fled their homeland in what is now southern Vietnam to escape from Annamese invasion.
Utsumi Takeshi Utsumi Takeshi is a dedicated former Fulbright Scholar who has, for some decades, devoted himself to experimenting with and demonstrating the technology that can bring needed learning, health care and perhaps "peace to everyone on our planet." He is the founder and vice president for "Technology and Coordination" of the Global University System, and is the co-editor of a new book about that project, Global Peace Through The Global University System.
Utsunomiko Utsunomiko (宇宙皇ĺ - also Utsu no Miko) is a Japanese historical fantasy light novel series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川桂介) and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata, which was later adapted into an anime of the same title. The story is set in the late Asuka Period - Nara Period, and follows the trials of the titular character Utsunomiko (usually shortened to Miko,) the offspring of the kami of the north star.
Uttam Sarkar Uttam Kumar Sarkar is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for Dhaka Division in Bangladeshi domestic cricket. During the 2005–06 season, he also played for Security Express in the Corporate League and Kalabagan in the Premier League for clubs.
Uttama Seva Padakkama The Uttama Seva Padakkama () is presented to all ranks of the Regular Forces of the Sri Lankan military for valuable service and dedication to duty with the outstanding ability, merit and excellent conduct, given that they count not less than 15 years continuous and uninterrupted service and possess and perfectly flawless record of moral and military conduct.
Uttar Banga Sambad Uttar Banga Sambad (Bengali: উত্তর বঙ্গ সংবাদ) is a Bengali language broadsheet published from Siliguri. It is the largest circulating daily in North Bengal and have a share of about 80% out of all other dailies in the region.
Uttara (Dhaka) Uttara (Bengali:উত্তরা) (pronounced UT-to-ra) is a suburb several kilometres north of Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. (The name derives from the Bengali word "uttor" meaning "north").
Uttara BhÄdrapadÄ Uttarabhadra (Devanagari: उत्तराŕ¤ŕ¤ľŕ¤¦ŕĄŤŕ¤°ŕ¤ľ) is the 26th nakshatra (Devanagari: नक्षत्र) or lunar mansion as used in Hindu astronomy and astrology. It belongs to the constellation Meena (Devanagari: मीन) or Pisces.
Uttara Kuru Kingdom Other than the Kurus of India ruled by the Pandavas and the Kauravas, there was this another kingdom called Uttara Kurus (Northern Kurus) to the north of Himalayas. Some historians identify this kingdom as Kyrgistan, a Central Asian Republic.
Uttarakhand Uttarakhand (Hindi]: उत्तराखंड), known as Uttaranchal from 2000 to 2006, became the 27th [[States and territories of India|state of the Republic of India on November 9, 2000. Uttarakhand borders Tibet (China) to the north and Nepal to the east, while its neighbour states are Himachal Pradesh to the west and Uttar Pradesh (of which it formed a part before 2000) in the south.
Uttarakhand Kranti Dal The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal is a regional political party in India. It bills itself as the only regional party of the Uttarakhand Himalayas, in contrast to the national parties that dominate the region's politics.
Uttarakhand Solidarity Network The Uttarakhand Solidarity Network (USN), is at once an electronic network of individuals, a working committee, and a group of web sites dedicated to political, economic, environmental, cultural and social justice issues in the Uttarakhand region of India.
Uttarayana UttarÄyana (उत्तरायण) is the six month period between Makar Sankranti around (January 14) and Karka Sankranti around (July 14), when the Sun travels towards north on the celestial sphere. The period from July 14 to January 14 is known is DakshinÄyana (दक्षिणायण).
Uttarpara Govt. High School Uttarpara Government High School (also known as Uttarpara Rastriya Uchcha Vidyalaya) is a school situated in Uttarpara (Bengali: উত্তরপাড়া), a small town of Hooghly District, West Bengal, India.
Utter Access Forums Utter Access Forums is a popular online help forum dealing primarily with Microsoft Office products and relational database management systems. Utter Access is used by over 100,000 users around the world and in addition to professional help with problem solutions, users are able to download many sample applications, articles, and sample code.
Utter Inn Utter Inn or as in English, Otter Inn, is an art project by Mikael Genberg which offers an underwater accommodation for the public. The facility is entered through a typical Swedish red house located on the surface of the water.
Utterly Alone Utterly Alone (Lithuanian: Vienui Vieni) is a 2003 film directed by Jonas Vaitkus, based on real events, about Juozas Lukša (Daumantas), a Lithuanian partisan who fought against the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in the years immediately following World War II. The film is set in 1950-51 and shot in black and white.
Utti Jaeger Regiment The Utti Jaeger Regiment (Finnish: Utin Jääkärirykmentti) is the Finnish Defence Forces training and development centre for special forces and helicopter operations. It consists of about 500 personnel of which about 200 are conscripts.
Uttoxeter Canal The Uttoxeter Canal was a thirteen-mile extension of the Caldon Canal running from Froghall as far as Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, England. It was opened around 1811 and is sometimes referred to as a branch of the Caldon Canal.
Uttu Uttu is the goddess of weaving and clothing. She is both the child of Enki and Ninkur, and she bears seven new child/trees from Enki, the eighth being the Ti (Tree of "Life", associated with the "Rib").
Utuado, Puerto Rico Utuado is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central/western mountainous region of the island known as La Cordillera Central. It is located north of Adjuntas and Ponce; south of Hatillo and Arecibo; east of Lares; and west of Ciales and Jayuya.
Utupua-Vanikoro languages The Utupua-Vanikoro languages are a hypothetical branch of the Central-Eastern Oceanic languages (CEO). No known shared innovations unite the two component families, which therefore may be independent branches of CEO.
Utupurshi of Diauehi Utupurshi was a king of the ancient people of Diauehi (Daiaeni) in northeastern Anatolia (circa 810 BC-770 BC). Defeated and subdued by the Urartian king Menuas (810-785 BC), he later revolted against Argishtis I (785-763 BC), but was again defeated and had to cede several provinces to Urartu and to pay an annual tribute.
Utusan Malaysia Utusan Malaysia (formerly known as "Utusan Melayu") is a Malay language newspaper in Malaysia that was launched and printed in Singapore on May 29, 1939 to cater to the Jawi-literate in then British Malaya. It became an influential medium for the populace to voice their opinions towards the colonial government in pre-independence Malaya.
Utz (file format) The UTZ (file format), format used by Symbian OS devices to store user interface themes. A UTZ file is a ZIP file container consisting of one XML file describing the user interface layout and a collection of resources like PNG graphics and mp3 sounds.
Utz Kapeh Utz Kapeh, â€good coffee’ in an old Mayan language from Guatemala, is the largest coffee certification program worldwideCoffee Network Organisational ProfileUtz Kapeh Website. Utz Kapeh is a foundation for world-wide implementation of a baseline standard for responsible coffee growing and sourcing.
UT 512L OPV The UT 512L OPV design is a Rolls Royce design for a new Icelandic Coast Guard ship which is set to replace the aging V/s Ă“Ă°inn. The construction of the ship was approved by the Icelandic government on December 1 2006.
UT Air UT Air is an airline based in Khanty Mansiysk, Tyumen, Russia. It operates scheduled domestic passenger services, charter flights and helicopter activities in support of the oil and gas industry in Siberia, and relief operations for the United Nations.
UT Cougars The UT Cougars are one of the original four British Collegiate American Football League (BCAFL) teams which began play in the 1985-86 season (along with Hull, Newcastle and the now-defunct Manchester). The Cougars were one of the more successful teams in the early BCAFL, winning two straight college bowls in 1990 & 1991.
UT TeleCampus The UT TeleCampus (UTTC), launched in 1998, works with all 15 University of Texas System institutions to build and deliver collaborative online courses, degree programs and support services. Students may complete most online degree programs or courses entirely from a distance.
UT1 (Ukraine) UT1, currently marketed as "First National" () is the main state-run television channel in Ukraine, operated by the National Television Company of Ukraine. It is broadcast through all the country's territory.
UTA 70 Class UTA 70 Class was a multiple unit train built for service on Northern Ireland s railways. The MED’s and MPD’s, which made use of readily available power and transmission units, were cheap to operate but noisier and not as uncomfortable as locomotive - hauled rolling stock, a fact which made them unsuitable for Inter - City journeys.
UTA AEC Following the end of WW2 most railways, throughout the world, were looking to either update their fleet of steam locomotives with new and more economical designs or look towards alternatives, which for many meant a programme of dieselisation. The main considerations were the rising cost of coal against diesel oil and the weight of the trains causing wear and tear on the track.
UTA Flight 772 Union des Transports AĂ©riens Flight 772 was a flight of a French airline which was scheduled to fly from the former Congo-Brazzaville, to N'Djamena in Chad, and then to Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris.
UTA MED The Ulster Transport Authority Multi-Engined Diesel (UTA MED) was an early diesel powered railcar, used in Northern Ireland. The 12-mile Belfast-Bangor railway line had a well used passenger service and, being devoid of goods traffic, was chosen as the testing ground for the diesel railcar era.
UTA MPD The Ulster Transport Authority Multi-Purpose Diesel (UTA MPD) was a diesel powered railcar, used in Northern Ireland. It was developed by the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA) as a progression of the earlier Multi-engined Diesel (MED).
UTA TRAX Sandy/Salt Lake Line The Sandy/Salt Lake Line is a line in the TRAX light rail system in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It is the first line in the TRAX system; the line opened from downtown Salt Lake City, going through South Salt Lake, Murray, and Midvale en route to Sandy on December 4, 1999, opening one year ahead of schedule after two years of construction.
UTA TRAX University Line The University Line is a line in the TRAX light rail system in the Salt Lake City, Utah area, operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It is the second line in the TRAX system, after the Sandy/Salt Lake Line, and is named for the University of Utah, which is where the line ends.
UTEC UTEC was a computer built at the University of Toronto (UofT) in the early 1950s. It was one of the first working computers in the world, although only built in a prototype form while awaiting funding for expansion into a full-scale version.
UTF-1 UTF-1 is a way of transforming ISO 10646/Unicode into a stream of bytes. Due to the design it is not possible to resynchronise if decoding starts in the middle of a character (this makes truncation hard among other things) and simple byte-oriented search routines cannot be reliably used with it.
UTF-32/UCS-4 UTF-32 and UCS-4 are alternate names for a method of encoding Unicode characters, using the fixed amount of exactly 32 bits for each Unicode code point. It can be regarded as the simplest encoding form, as all other Unicode Transformation Formats have variable-length encodings for various code points.
UTF-7 UTF-7 (7-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding that was proposed for representing Unicode-encoded text using a stream of ASCII characters, for example for use in Internet e-mail messages.
UTF-8 UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any universal character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF-8 is consistent with ASCII (requiring little or no change for software that handles ASCII but preserves other values).
UTF-9 and UTF-18 UTF-9 and UTF-18 (9- and 18-bit Unicode Transformation Format, respectively) were two April Fool's Day RFC joke specifications for encoding unicode on systems where the nonet (nine bit group) is a better fit for the native word size than the octet, such as the 36-bit PDP-10. Both encodings were specified in RFC 4042, written by Mark Crispin (inventor of IMAP) and released on April 1 2005.
UTFSF UTFSF is an initialism for "Use The Fucking Search Function." Usenet, discussion forums, and the like suffer from users who post requests for answers that have long been available through a search engine.
UTN - Facultad Regional Haedo The Facultad Regional Haedo or FRH is one of the faculties of the Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional of Argentina. It is situated in Haedo city of the Greater Buenos Aires in Argentina, and it offers academic degrees in the following subjects:
UTN - Facultad Regional Mendoza The Facultad Regional Mendoza or FRM is one of the faculties of the Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional of Argentina. It is situated in Mendoza the capital city of Mendoza in Argentina, and it offers academic degrees in the following subjects:
UTOC The University of Toronto Outing Club (UTOC) is an official student organization at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, patterned on traditional outing clubs in Europe and the United States. UTOC's mandate has been to provide students, faculty, and alumni with inexpensive access to outdoor activities and support outdoor recreation throughout the university community.
UTOPIA (Bioinformatics tools) UTOPIA (User-friendly Tools for OPerating Informatics Applications) is a suite of free tools for visualising and analysing bioinformatics data. Based on an ontology-driven data model, it contains applications for viewing and aligning protein sequences, rendering complex molecular structures in 3D, and for finding and using resources such as web services and data objects.
UTP Records UTP Records (also known as UpTown Projects) is a record label, started by Juvenile in 2001 soon after leaving Cash Money Records. In 2004, Juvenile landed a joint venture with Rap-A-Lot Records and dropped the album "The Beginning of the End" with UTP members Wacko and Skip.
UTS Union UTS Union Limited is the peak service provider at the University of Technology, Sydney. It operates retail, fitness and catering services as well as Clubs and Societies, student publicatons and Orientation Day.
UTV Live UTV Live is the flagship news programme in the UTV region in Northern Ireland. The first edition of UTV Live was transmitted on 4 January 1993, replacing the main evening bulletin Six Tonight and shorter bulletins Ulster Newstime.
UTV plc UTV plc (also referred to as the UTV Group) is a broadcasting and New Media company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Its main operation is the ITV (Channel 3) franchise for Northern Ireland, and it is also the owner of UTV Radio, which operates the UK Independent National Radio station talkSPORT, along with several radio stations in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
UTV-EMAP Stoke-on-Trent UTV-EMAP Stoke-on-Trent is a local commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, which serves the Stoke-on-Trent area. It is jointly owned by UTV (70%) and EMAP (30%) The service launched on 30th April 2004 .
Uub (Dragon Ball) Uub is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series and the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT anime series. He is a Human, and due to being the reincarnation of Kid Buu, his name is a result of reversing Buu.
Uuencoding Uuencoding is a form of binary to text encoding that originated in the Unix program uuencode, for encoding binary data for transmission over the uucp mail system. The name "uuencoding" is derived from "Unix-to-Unix encoding".
Uunartoq Qeqertoq Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for "The Warming Island", is a newly discovered island off the east central coast of Greenland. It was attached to the mainland by glacial ice until recently when the ice shelves began retreating rapidly in this area.
Uunijuusto Uunijuusto is a Finnish dish made from cow's beestings, the first milk of a calved cow, by adding a pinch of salt (some 0.5 grams per a litre of milk) and by baking the milk in an oven (30 minutes in 150 degrees Celsius, and for a few moments in 250 degrees to get the color).
Uuno Turhapuro Uuno Turhapuro (Numbskull Emptybrook) is a Finnish comedy character created by Spede Pasanen and played by Vesa-Matti Loiri. Originally appeared in Spede Show during 1971–1973, the character gained popularity through the Uuno Turhapuro films.
Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä (Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army) is a 1984 Finnish comedy and the ninth film in the Uuno Turhapuro film series starring Vesa-Matti Loiri as the title character, Spede Pasanen as the potty-mouthed mechanic Härski Hartikainen, and Simo Salminen as their constant companion Sörsselssön. It is to date the highest-grossing Finnish comedy and not too surprisingly the most well-known in the Turhapuro series.
Uusimaa (constituency) Uusimaa is a constituency represented in the Finnish Eduskunta (parliament). It covers the administrative regions of Uusimaa and Eastern Uusimaa, excluding the city of Helsinki, which forms its own constituency (see Helsinki (constituency)).
Uutisvuoto Uutisvuoto (Finnish for "news leak") is the Finnish version of the popular British television quiz show Have I Got News For You. Going out on Saturday nights on Yleisradio TV1 since 1998, the show receives very high viewing figures.
Uv tube The UV Tube is a design concept for providing inexpensive water disinfection to people in poor countries. The concept is based the ability of ultraviolet light to kill infectious agents by disrupting their DNA.
Uva Rebellion The Uva Rebellion, also known as the 'Great Rebellion of 1817-1818' (or the 3rd Kandyan War by the British) took place in Ceylon against the British colonial government under Governor Robert Brownrigg, which had been controlling the formerly independent Udarata (Sinhalese: Up-Country), of which Uva was a province.
Uvac The Uvac (Serbian Cyrillic: Увац) is the river in southwestern Serbia and Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 119 km long right and major tributary of the Lim, loosely making the northern border of the Sandžak/Raška region. Before it empties into the Lim, for a 10 kilometers it forms the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Uvarovite Uvarovite is a chromium bearing garnet: Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3. It was discovered in 1832 by Germain Henri Hess who named it after Count Sergei Semenovitch Uvarov (1765-1855), a Russian statesman and amateur mineral collector.
Uvas Canyon County Park Uvas Canyon County Park is part of the Santa Clara County Park System. This natural park is located in upper Uvas Canyon on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and has several small waterfalls, some of which flow perennially.
Uvdal Stave Church Uvdal Stave Church is situated at Uvdal in Nore and Uvdal municipality, which is in the valley Numedal in Norway. The stave church was originally constructed just after the year 1168Official dating by Riksantikvaren (Directorate of Cultural Heritage in Norway), which we know through dendrochronological dating of the pine tree used during the construction.
Uvedale Price Sir Uvedale Price (baptized April 14, 1747 – September 14, 1829), author of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared With The Sublime and The Beautiful (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesque debate' of the 1790s. Apart from the landscape and garden design debates described below, Price's theory resurfaced in architectural and urban design concepts of the mid-twentieth century, being a source of inspiration for the Townscape Movement conceived by Hugh de Cronin Hastings (aka Ivor de Wolfe), editor of the Architectural Review (UK), and his colleagues in 1949.
Uver River Uver () is a river in Novgorod Oblast of Russia, a right tributary of the Msta River. Uver starts from the Korobozha Lake at , north-east of Borovichi, then flows south, and joins the Msta at , between the settlements of Berezovsky Ryadok and Opechensky Posad.
Uvira Uvira is a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located at 03°26′ S 29°08′ E and at the north end of Lake Tanganyika. It has a major port at Kalundu which provides links by boat to Kalemie, and to Kigoma in Tanzania.
Uvs Nuur Uvs Nuur Lake (in Mongolian language ĐŁĐ˛Ń ĐťŃŃŃ€ where "ĐťŃŃŃ€" is meaning "lake") is the largest lake in Mongolia, which, at 753 m above sea level, covers an area of 3,350 km². Its northeastern part is situated in the Tuva Republic of the Russian Federation.
Uvular fluttertonguing Uvular fluttertonguing Nora Post, Monophonic sound resources for the oboe: Part I - Timbre is a wind instrument technique where the instrumentalist performs and uvular trill to produce an effect like that of fluttertonguing. Uvular fluttertonguing is used when an alveolar trill cannot be produced.
Uvular-epiglottal consonant A uvular-epiglottal consonant is a doubly articulated consonant pronounced by making a simultaneous uvular consonant and epiglottal consonant. An example is the Somali "uvular" plosive /q/, which is actually a voiceless uvular-epiglottal plosive , as in 'to emit smoke'
Uvulariaceae Uvulariaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. This family is only rarely recognised, but was accepted by the Dahlgren system which placed it in order Liliales in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae [=monocotyledons] of class Magnoliopsida [=angiosperms].
UV Completion In theoretical physics, UV completion of a quantum field theory XY is another quantum field theory (or a more generalized theory) AB that reduces to XY below some energy scale (the cutoff of XY). However, AB must be, unlike XY, well-defined at arbitrarily high energies i.
UV fixed point A theory has a UV fixed point if its renormalization group flow runs towards a fixed point in the ultraviolet limit. Among other things, it means that such a theory is not an effective field theory because it is well-defined at arbitrarily small distance scales.
UV index The UV index is an international standard measurement of how strong the ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun is at a particular place on a particular day. It is a scale primarily used in daily forecasts aimed at the general public.
UV Stabilizers in plastics UV light stabilizers are used frequently plastics, including cosmetics and films. The primary function is to protect the substance from the long-term degradation effects from light, most frequently ultraviolet light.
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