first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church consecrated in the United States. His efforts did much to assure the continuance of the church in the New World. [1 Related Articles]
branches of a German family influential from the 12th century to 1918. The name, adopted during the first quarter of the 12th century, was derived from Aschersleben, where the counts of Ballenstedt had a castle in the midst of possessions northeast of the Harz mountains. [1 Related Articles]
in Roman legend, son of the hero Aeneas and the traditional founder of Alba Longa, probably the site of the modern Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. In different versions, Ascanius is placed variously in time. The usual account, found in Virgil's Aeneid, makes the Trojan Creusa his mother. ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anura") ...to the pelvic girdle); parahyoid and caudaliopuboischiotibialis ("tail-wagging") muscles present; stream-adapted tadpoles; northwestern North America; 1 genus (Ascaphus), 2 species; adult length about 5 cm (2 inches).9 presacral vertebrae (i.e., anterior to the pelvic...
infection of humans and other mammals caused by the intestinal roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides. Infection follows the ingestion of Ascaris eggs that have contaminated foods or soil. In the small intestine the larvae are liberated and migrate through the intestinal wall, reaching the lungs, where they may produce a host sensitization ... [2 Related Articles]
any of a genus of worms (order Ascaridida, class Secernentea) that are parasitic in the intestines of various terrestrial mammals, chiefly herbivores. They are typically large worms (up to about 40 cm long) characterized by a mouth surrounded by three lips. The species Ascaris lumbricoides is probably the most familiar ...
(from the article "Beneden, Edouard van") From 1883 van Beneden published a series of important papers on the egg of Ascaris megalocephala, an intestinal worm found in horses. In these studies he showed that fertilization consisted essentially in the union of two half-nuclei-one male (from the sperm cell) and one female (from the egg cell)-each containing ...
(from the article "Beneden, Edouard van") ...the body cells of the species. This union produced a cell containing the full number of chromosomes. Van Beneden revealed the individuality of single chromosomes in his study of a subspecies of Ascaris (A. megalocephala univalens) having only two chromosomes in its body cells. He further demonstrated that the chromosome ...
(from the article "Church Universal and Triumphant") the largest of several groups that emerged from I AM religious activity, a movement centred upon avowed contact with the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood, the order of spiritual beings, "the saints robed in white" that adherents believe guide the overall destiny of humankind. The church was founded ...
(from the article "aorta") At the opening from the left ventricle into the aorta is a three-part valve that prevents backflow of blood from the aorta into the heart. The aorta emerges from the heart as the ascending aorta, turns to the left and arches over the heart (the aortic arch), and passes downward ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") The ascending colon extends up from the cecum at the level of the ileocecal valve to the bend in the colon called the hepatic flexure, which is located beneath and behind the right lobe of the liver; behind, it is in contact with the rear abdominal wall and the right ...
(from the article "hallucination") Conscious awareness is found to be mediated by the ascending midbrain reticular activating system (a network of nerve cells in the brainstem). Analyses of hallucinations reported by sufferers of neurological disorders and by neurosurgical patients in whom the brain is stimulated electrically have shown the importance of the temporal lobes ...
(from the article "celestial mechanics") ...of the Earth's Equator.) Angle I is the inclination of the orbital plane to the reference plane. The line of nodes is the intersection of the orbit plane with the reference plane, and the ascending node is that point where the planet travels from below the reference plane (south) to ...
island in the South Atlantic Ocean, a dependency of the British overseas territory of St. Helena, 700 miles (1,100 km) to the southeast. The main settlement, and the location of the island's administrative headquarters, is Georgetown. [1 Related Articles]
in Christian belief, the ascent of Jesus Christ into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection (Easter being reckoned as the first day). According to the first chapter of The Acts of the Apostles, after appearing to the Apostles on various occasions during a period of 40 days, Jesus ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Almaty") ...its centre and is considered one of the most beautiful cities of Kazakhstan, with regular planning, wide, tree-lined streets, numerous parks and orchards, and a backdrop of mountains. The former Ascension Cathedral, built in 1907 and the second highest wooden building in the world, now houses a museum. Of the ...
(from the article "Ascension") The Ascension of Jesus is mentioned in the Apostles' Creed, a profession of faith used for baptism in the early church. The feast of the Ascension ranks with Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost in the universality of its observance among Christians. The feast has been celebrated 40 days after Easter in ...
(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...believed that the company's stronger financial results showed that corporate spending on information technology, which had been in a lull, was increasing slowly. IBM also bought software company Ascential Software for $1.1 billion; Ascential's software helped organize large quantities of raw data for business customers.
(from Greek askeo: "to exercise," or "to train"), the practice of the denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal. Hardly any religion has been without at least traces or some features of asceticism. [30 Related Articles]
Polish-born American novelist and playwright, the most controversial and one of the most widely known writers in modern Yiddish literature. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "personality") ...attribute high consistency to that person, as if many positive traits could be inferred from the attribution or observation of one positive trait. For example, the American social psychologist Solomon Asch has shown that a physically attractive person will tend to be judged as having many other desirable qualities. Asch ...
city, Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies on the right bank of the canalized Main River near the mouth of the Aschaff River and at the foot of the forested Spessart (mountains), 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Frankfurt. Originally a Roman settlement, it came under ...
British humanist, scholar, and writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. [6 Related Articles]
a name referring to an obsolete phylum of wormlike invertebrates, mostly of microscopic size. Previously, phylum Aschelminthes included seven diverse classes of animals: Nematoda (or Nemata), Rotifera, Acanthocephala, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha (or Echinodera), Nematomorpha, and Gnathostomulida. (According to some authorities, Gnathostomulida was replaced by Priapula in this list.) At present, each ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "pregnancy") Tests using immature mice (the Aschheim-Zondek test) and immature rats have been found to be extremely accurate. Tests using rabbits (the Friedman test) have been largely replaced by the more rapid and less expensive frog and toad tests.
(from the article "bryophyte") ...Ephemeropsis and the liverwort genus Metzgeria and many species of the liverwort family Lejeuneaceae), salt pans (the liverwort Carrpos), bases of quartz pebbles (the moss Aschisma), and copper-rich substrata (the moss Scopelophila).
German pathologist who recognized the phagocytic (capable of engulfing bacteria and other substances) activity of certain cells found in diverse tissues and named them the reticuloendothelial system (1924). He also described (1904) the inflammatory nodule (called Aschoff's bodies, or nodules) in heart muscle characteristic of the rheumatic process.
(from the article "supercomputer") ...of IBM's Blue Gene/L, with 8,192 processing nodes, reached a speed of about 36 TFLOPS, just exceeding the speed of the Earth Simulator. Following two doublings in the number of its processors, the ASCI Blue Gene/L, installed in 2005 at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., became the first machine ...
a standard data-transmission code that is used by smaller and less-powerful computers to represent both textual data (letters, numbers, and punctuation marks) and noninput-device commands (control characters). Like other coding systems, it converts information into standardized digital formats that allow computers to communicate with each other and to efficiently process ... [5 Related Articles]
accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, between the membrane lining the abdominal wall and the membrane covering the abdominal organs. The most common causes of ascites are cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure, tumours of the peritoneal membranes, and escape of chyle (lymph laden with emulsified fats) into the ... [2 Related Articles]
Greek lyric verse later used by Latin poets such as Catullus, Horace, and Seneca. The asclepiad consisted of an aeolic nucleus, a choriamb to which were added more choriambs and iambic or trochaic elements at the end of each line. A version with four choriambs is known as the greater ...
the milkweed family of the flowering-plant order Gentianales, including more than 280 genera and about 2,000 species of tropical herbs or shrubby climbers, rarely shrubs or trees. Most members of the family have milky juice, flowers with five united petals, podlike fruits, and, usually, tufted seeds. The silky-haired seeds are ... [3 Related Articles]
Greek physician who established Greek medicine in Rome. His influence continued until Galen began to practice medicine in Rome in AD 164. [1 Related Articles]
Greco-Roman god of medicine, son of Apollo (god of healing, truth, and prophecy) and the mortal princess Coronis. The Centaur Chiron taught him the art of healing. At length Zeus (the king of the gods), afraid that Asclepius might render all men immortal, slew him with a thunderbolt. Apollo slew ... [5 Related Articles]
fruiting structure of fungi of the phylum Ascomycota (kingdom Fungi). It arises from vegetative filaments (hyphae) after sexual reproduction has been initiated. The ascocarp (in forms called apothecium, cleistothecium [cleistocarp], or perithecium) contain saclike structures (asci) that usually bear four to eight ascospores. Apothecia are stalked and either disklike, saucer-shaped, ... [2 Related Articles]
city, Marche regione, central Italy. Ascoli Piceno lies at the confluence of the Tronto and Castellano rivers. The ancient centre of the Picenes (early inhabitants of the Adriatic coast), it was conquered in the 3rd century BC by the Romans, who knew it as Asculum Picenum. After 1006 the city ...
Italian linguist who pioneered in dialect studies, emphasized the importance of studying living vernaculars, and prepared a model classification of Italian dialects.
(from the article "fungus") In addition to these mechanisms for propagation, the individual symbionts have various methods of reproduction. For example, ascolichens (lichens in which the mycobiont is an ascomycete) form fruits called ascocarps that are similar to those of free-living ascomycetes, except that the mycobiont's fruits are capable of producing spores for a ...
a phylum of fungi (kingdom Fungi) characterized by a saclike structure, the ascus, which contains four to eight ascospores in the sexual stage. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "sponge") ...types of water-current systems of increasingly complex structure may be distinguished by the arrangement of choanocytes and the development of canals-ascon, sycon, and leucon. The simplest, or ascon, type, found only in certain primitive genera of the Calcarea (e.g.,Leucosolenia), is characterized by an ...
(from the article "Switzerland") ...Within the Alps of Vaud, Vevey and Montreux were sited on small deltas jutting into Lake Geneva that provided flat land near the mountainous north shore; in the Alps of Ticino, Locarno and Ascona developed on the delta of the Maggia River. Many settlements evolved from their distinct sites. For ...
(from the article "marine ecosystem") ...of the intertidal. The mix of algae species found in any particular locale is dependent on latitude and also varies greatly according to wave exposure and the activity of grazers. For example, Ascophyllum spores cannot attach to rock in even a gentle ocean surge; as a result this plant is ...
(from the article "Enzymes that cause food spoilage") ...and liver, respectively, contain about 60 percent of the total copper in those tissues; their functions are still unknown. There are a number of copper-containing enzymes; examples are (1) ascorbic acid oxidase (an oxidase is an oxidizing enzyme), which contains eight atoms of copper per molecule; it is widely distributed ...
(from the article "beekeeping") Chalk brood is caused by the fungus Ascosphaera apis. The larvae victims of this disease have a chalky, white appearance. Stonebrood, which affects both brood and adults, is also caused by a fungus, Aspergillus flavus, which can usually be isolated from bees that have stonebrood.
(from the article "fungus") The complex fruiting bodies (ascocarps) of lichen fungi are of several types. The factors that induce fruiting in lichens have not been established with certainty. Spores of lichen fungi (ascospores) are of extremely varying sizes and shapes; e.g., Pertusaria has one or two large spores in one ascus (saclike bodies ...
locality, Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Berkshire, England, known for its racecourse on Ascot Heath. The Royal Ascot meeting (initiated in 1711 by Queen Anne) lasts four days each June and is traditionally attended by the British sovereign. A major social and fashion event, it ...
(from the article "Ascot") ...days each June and is traditionally attended by the British sovereign. A major social and fashion event, it has lent its name to the ascot, a type of broad neck scarf. Its principal event is the Ascot Gold Cup, established in 1807 and run over 2.5 miles (4 km) by ...
(from the article "Equestrian Sports") All of the big races traditionally run at England's Ascot racecourse were shared out between other courses in 2005 while new grandstands were being built at Ascot and parts of the racecourse were realigned. Kempton Park was also closed and would reopen in March 2006 as an all-weather track with ...
(from the article "crustacean") ...Silurian to present; sedentary; 6 pairs of trunk limbs (cirri); larvae free-swimming; sessile adults with carapace developed into a mantle; about 1,100 species.Cretaceous to present; parasites on sea anemones and echinoderms; body typically enclosed in a bivalved carapace; some with segmented abdomen and caudal furca;...
