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21Mechanical resonance — This article is about mechanical resonance in physics and engineering. For a general description of resonance, see resonance. For mechanical resonance of sound including musical instruments, see acoustic resonance. For the music album by the… …
22Video camera tube — In older video cameras, before the mid to late 1980s, a video camera tube or pickup tube was used instead of a charge coupled device (CCD) for converting an optical image into an electrical signal. Several types were in use from the 1930s to the… …
23Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …
24nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …
25Thomas Sever — Dr. Thomas L. Sever is an archaeologist with NASA s Marshall Space Flight Center. Dr. Sever is NASA s only archaeologist and works primarily with Dan Irwin to decode remote sensing readings. While most of his work has dealt with South American… …
26perception — perceptional, adj. /peuhr sep sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or faculty of apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding. 2. immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation, as of moral, psychological, or aesthetic… …
27postal system — System that allows persons to send letters, parcels, or packages to addressees in the same country or abroad. Postal systems are usually government run and paid for by a combination of user charges and government subsidies. There are early… …
28Yoav Sarig — (born July 27, 1937) is an Israeli scientist, inventor and agricultural engineer. He is a renowned expert in the field of mechanical harvesting of fruit, and is the holder of several patents for mechanical apparatus for harvesting and processing… …
29Michael Francis Tompsett — is a British born physicist and former researcher at English Electric Valve Company, [1] who later moved to Bell Labs in America. He is best known as the inventor of Charge Coupled Device (CCD) Imagers used for imaging in devices such as digital… …
30Calreticulin — PDB rendering based on 1hhn …
