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Fleischmann-Pons experiment

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Fleischmann-Pons experiment is an experiment that Martin Fleischmann, then one of the world's leading electrochemists, and Stanley Pons announced in 1989 that they had produced anomalous heat ("excess heat") of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of n...

Fleshbeast

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Fleshbeast is a short zombie horror film, produced and filmed in the UK in 2008. It pays homage to the Italian horror films of the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento. It also mimics the low-budget style of many video nasties released during the day...

Flight pooling

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Flight Pooling is another form of jetpooling or jet sharing in which even bigger commercial jets such as Airbus and Boeing can be booked by a group of travelers to share its cost. Flight Pooling is used on-demand from DOT/FAA approved operators in Part 135 carrier category.Flight...

Flora Sheldon

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Flora Sheldon (Ohio, March 17, 1872 – September 4, 1920) was the wife of Samuel Prescott Bush and the mother of Prescott Bush, the grandmother of George H. W. Bush, and the great-grandmother of George W. Bush.Her parents were Robert Emmet Sheldon and Mary Elizabeth Butl...

Florganoleptic

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Florganoleptic is a music genre that refers to the interaction between humans and plants. This is done with the use of an electronic MIDI instrument that measures the plant's bioelectrical fluctuations with the help of a probe that monitors the electrical impulse between two elec...

Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao

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"Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao" is an upcoming welterweight superfight between #1 pound-for-pound and #2 pound-for-pound fighters Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr., which is scheduled on March 13, 2010. The fight will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada....

Fluorescent green pig

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Fluorescent green pigs were first bred by a group of researchers led by Wu Shinn-Chih at the Department of Animal Science and Technology at National Taiwan University, announcing the results of the experiment in January 2006.The transgenic pigs were created by adding DNA encoding...

Flutrack

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Flutrack is a system that detects influenza symptoms by processing and displaying influenza related Twitter messages. Flutrack platform gathers and visualizes tweets every 20 minutes in real time. This open platform and its API allow users and developers to extend this project an...

Flying chess

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Flying chess is a chess variant using a three-dimensional board. The game was invented by Dr David Eltis in 1984. Eltis is also a noted historian of the Military Revolution.RulesThe board used for Flying chess is eight by eight by two, giving a 128-cell board. There can either be...

FM 90.7 (New Zealand)

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FM 90.7 was a short-term summer station in , New Zealand which operated between 5 January 1982 and 31 January 1982, and again in the summer of 1982 to 1983. This station was the very first FM station in New Zealand.<ref name=":0" /> FM 90.7 was operated as a summer station by Rad...

Focused promoter

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A focused promoter contains either a single transcription start site or a distinct cluster of start sites over several nucleotides. Focused promoters are sometimes referred to as narrow peak (NP) promoters. Dispersed promoters exhibit a clearly defined periodic nucleosome organiz...

Folknography

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Folknography, a qualitative research method, was first defined and conceptualized by Dr. David M. Lucas of Ohio University. Dr. Lucas, a communication studies faculty member, originally began his research using ethnography (citation needed) but quickly found the terms, processes ...

Food Matters

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Food Matters is a 2008 documentary film about nutrition. The film presents the thesis that a selective diet can play a key role in treating a range of health conditions such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease and depression, often substituting for medical treatment. Furthermore, ...

Food product drug

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Food product drug is a term used to describe foods that have potential therapeutic effects. This beneficial effect is caused by containing one or more pharmacologically active ingredients. Food product drugs include medicinal foods, dietary fibres, herbs and fungus. In contrary t...

Food Race

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American environmentalist author Daniel Quinn coined the term food race (by analogy to the Cold War's "nuclear arms race") to describe his concept of a perpetually escalating crisis of human overpopulation due to a growing human population and growing food production, which is fu...

Food Tank: The Food Think Tank

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Food Tank: The Food Think Tank is a non-profit launched in December 2012 by Danielle Nierenberg and Ellen Gustafson, who founded FEED Projects. Food Tank is dedicated to researching and highlighting environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunge...

Forbes theory

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The Forbes theory is a theory that states that in a programming language to compile from a high-level programming language to a low-level programming language takes more time and a more complex compiler.If you take this theory to its extreme, the theoretical highest-level program...

Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder

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The book &ldquo;Forensic aspects of dissociative identity disorder&rdquo; looks at the role of crime in the lives of people that suffer from Dissociative identity disorder. It is a collection of essays written by several international researchers. It explores the legal, moral, et...

Forest Star U13 F.C.

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Forest Star U13 F.C. (Was known as Bentley Youth F.C.) is an English Sunday league football team that is currently in the B.P.Y.F.L (Bilston Partnership Youth Football League) Premier Division and finished 4th in the 2011/2012 season behind New Park Village F.C.. Their new manage...

Forgotten Plague

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Forgotten Plague is a 2015 short documentary film which explores the current situation of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in the United States. Co-director and journalist, Ryan Prior, interviews leading experts, scientists, clinicians, and ME/CFS patie...

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