His argument was answered in 1631 by an English jurist, John Selden (1584–1654), who wrote Mare Clausum, which upheld the doctrine of that waters contiguous to the coastline of a country should be solely under the dominion of that country. When was mare clausum published? Mare Clausum Seu de DominioRead More →

transitive verb. 1 : to examine (someone or something) again especially from a different point of view reexamine the patient/evidence reexamining our assumptions It’s healthy, I think, to reexamine old institutions and futz with them rather than throw them out entirely.— What is another word for re educate? In thisRead More →

“Geomancy” is derived from the Latin “geomantia,” which in turn is derived from the Greek for “divination by earth.” The Arabic name for geomancy, “‘ilm al-raml,” means “the science of the sand.” In its original form, the geomantic figure was created by making lines of random numbers of dots inRead More →

Generally lovely kind nature and a forward going, responsive sensible ride. But many are just too big for their own good. They don’t live as long, break down earlier and most have terrible problems with itchy legs. They’re a lot of work and expensive to keep because of their size.Read More →

For replication purposes, materialized views allow you to maintain copies of remote data on your local node. The copies can be updatable with the Advanced Replication feature and are read-only without this feature. You can select data from a materialized view as you would from a table or view. WhatRead More →

Nuclear chemistry is the study of nuclear reactions and their uses in chemistry. Nuclear chemistry affects our lives in a variety of ways. Radioactive elements are widely used in medicine as diagnostic tools and as a means of treatment, especially for cancer (Figure 21.1). How do I become a Radiochemist?Read More →

Steam reforming or Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) reacts methane with steam at high temperature in the presence of a catalyst to give hydrogen and carbon monoxide. From an environmental position this method is still generating unacceptably significant quantities of greenhouse gases. How efficient is steam methane reforming? The efficiency ofRead More →

A road signal for directing vehicular traffic by means of colored lights, typically red for stop, green for go, and yellow for proceed with caution. Also called stoplight, traffic signal. How do you use the word traffic light in a sentence? a visual signal to control the flow of trafficRead More →

Elastic demand means there is a substantial change in quantity demanded when another economic factor changes (typically the price of the good or service), whereas inelastic demand means that there is only a slight (or no change) in quantity demanded of the good or service when another economic factor isRead More →