In computer science, the sleeping barber problem is a classic inter-process communication and synchronization problem between multiple operating system processes. The problem is analogous to that of keeping a barber working when there are customers, resting when there are none and doing so in an orderly manner. The barber and his customers represent […]

In the occipital bone, at the point of intersection of the four divisions of the cruciate eminence is the internal occipital protuberance.

See also

external occipital protuberance

External links

Diagram at uni-mainz.de

The Streit Slumber Chair is an easy chair and footstool manufactured by C. F. Streit Mfg. Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio from the late 19th century to the 1950s. Manufactured in a wide range of designs, the chair features an upholstered seat and back element which is supported within a base frame on a rack which […]

Internal may refer to:

Internal Revenue Service

Internal medicine

Internal set theory

Internal Conflict

Shōten (笑点) is a Japanese TV comedy program, continuously broadcast on Sunday evenings on Nippon TV since 15 May 1966, the second-longest running TV show in Japan.

The show gathers a group of six Japanese rakugo and manzai comedians wearing variously colored kimono sitting in a row, where they compete to make the best jokes, on […]

The Rocking Chair Years is Day At The Fair’s debut album on Rushmore Records, released on May 5, 2005.

Track listing

“The Rocking Chair Years”

“Coda” – 3:50

“And My Name’s Dignan, So What?”

“Who You Guna Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eyes”

“This Is Why We Don’t Have Nice Things”

“Eastern Homes & Western Hearts” – 4:10

“Pale In Comparison”

“The […]

The death chair is a term for a seating device used in the executions of criminals who have been condemned to the death penalty. A death chair is utilized in the following methods of execution:

Electrocution, where an electric chair restrains the inmate while an electrical current passes through his or her body.

Gas chamber, which has […]

A caesium standard is a primary frequency standard in which electronic transitions between the two hyperfine ground states of caesium-133 atoms are used to control the output frequency.

By the definition of the SI second, the transition between the two hyperfine ground states corresponds, in the absence of external influences (e.g., the Earth’s magnetic field), to […]

William James “Kimo” Wall was born in Hawaii in 1943. (”Kimo” is the Hawaiian equivalent of “Jim”.) At the age of six he began training in Goju-ryu karate under teachers who had studied with Miyagi Chojun during his three-year stay in Hawaii. In 1961 he joined the US Marine Corps and was stationed […]

A bosun’s chair or boatswain’s chair is a device used to suspend a person from a rope in order to perform work aloft. It is distinguished from a climbing harness by the inclusion of a more or less rigid seat, providing more comfort than even the best-padded straps for long-term use. In exchange, the bosun’s […]

An armchair is a chair with arm rests.

Armchair may also refer to:

Armchair nanotube, a carbon nanotube with chiral symmetry

Armchair, a sitting sex position

Armchair (bus company), a bus operator in London

“Armchair”, a song by Avail from their 1996 album 4am Friday

Armchair can also be used as a pejorative modifier to refer to a person who experiences […]

This is a list of Japanese infantry weapons in Second Sino-Japanese War.

Infantry Regular Artillery

7cm Field Gun (75 mm)

7 cm Mountain Gun (75mm)

Type 31 75 mm Field Gun

Type 31 75 mm Mountain Gun

Type 94 75 mm Mountain Gun

Type 31 75 mm Mountain Gun

Type 41 75 mm Mountain Gun “Rentai Ho”(regimental artillery)

Type 41 75 mm Cavalry Gun

Type […]

This article is not about Edwin Davis, discoverer in 1846 of the Serpent Mound

Edwin F. Davis was the first ’state electrician’ for the State of New York and finalized many features of the electric chair.
He executed, among other people, both William Kemmler and Martha M. Place.

Davis held a patent on certain features of the electric […]

Anma (按摩) is the name of those who perform a form of Japanese massage of the same name, which has its origins in China. Anma often practiced in fairly communal business groups in feudal Japan. They were made popular by the famous popular culture character known as Zatoichi, quite possibly the best known and […]

Linden Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Linden, New Jersey. The 2,600,000 square foot factory opened in 1937 to build Buick, Pontiac and Oldsmobile vehicles. During World War II, the plant was also used to produce fighter planes for the United States military, primarily the FM Wildcat, an improved version of the F4F […]

Vibrator may several different types of devices including:

Vibrator (sensual) – a device used for massage or sexual pleasure

Vibrator (mechanical) – a class of devices which create mechanical vibrations for varied uses such as a signaling annunciator, or industrial uses such as compacting gravel, or transporting materials

Vibrator (electronic) – an electronic component in […]

The Three Bears was a long-running comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. It made its first appearance in issue 881, dated 6 June 1959, drawn by Leo Baxendale at first and Bob McGrath later on.

Ma and Pa Bear and their young son Ted were lazy and gluttonous, and lived in a cave upon […]

Ita Wegman (* February 22, 1876 in Kravang, West Java; † March 4, 1943 in Arlesheim, Switzerland) is known as the co-founder of Anthroposophical Medicine with Rudolf Steiner. In 1921, she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic in Arlesheim, now known as the Ita Wegman Clinic. She also developed a special form of massage therapy, […]

Wat Pho (), also known as Wat Phra Chetuphon วัดพระเชตุพน) or The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, is a Buddhist temple in Phra Nakhon district, Bangkok, Thailand, located in the Rattanakosin district directly adjacent of the Grand Palace. Its official full name is Wat Phra Chetuphon Vimolmangklararm Rajwaramahaviharn (Thai: วัดพระเชตุพนวิมลมังคลาราม ราชวรมหาวิหาร).
The temple is also known […]

A rocking chair or rocker is a chair with two curved bands of wood (also known as rockers) attached to the bottom of the legs (one on the left two legs and one on the right two legs). This gives the chair contact with the floor at only two points granting the occupant the ability […]

For the method of execution nicknamed The Chair, see electric chair.

For the game show known as The Chair, see The Chair (game show).

The Chair is a fence jumped during the Grand National horse race at Aintree, Liverpool, England.

It is one of only two fences (the other being the Water Jump) in the race […]

Peter D. Clark (born January 27, 1938 in Windsor, Ontario) was Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1991-1997.

He received a BComm degree from the University of Windsor in 1964 and an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1974. He was mayor of Cumberland Township, Ontario from 1980 to 1989. Clark was defeated by Bob Chiarelli […]

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky […]

Mykhailo Brodsky is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. Since 2006 he has served as a deputy of the Kyiv City Council representing the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

Brodsky was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Chair of the “Yabluko” (”Apple”) Party in 2003-2005. Was a national deputy of Ukraine, 1998-2002. Was a chair of […]

Shekel function is a multidimensional, multimodal, continuous, deterministic function commonly used as a test function for testing optimization techniques.

The mathematical form of a function in n dimensions with m maxima is:

<math>
f(\underline{x}) = \sum_{i = 1}^{m} \frac{1}{c_{i} + \sum_{j = 1}^{n} (x_{j} - a_{ji})^2 }
</math>

References
Shekel, J. 1971. “Test Functions for Multimodal Search Techniques.” Fifth […]

Patricia Fearing is a fictional character in the James Bond novel Thunderball. For the 1965 film of the same name she went by the nickname ‘Pat’ and was portrayed by Molly Peters. Fearing is a shapely, blonde, brown-eyed nurse who looks over James Bond while he is a guest at the Shrublands’ health farm.

Biography
In both […]

In the context of furniture, caning is a method of weaving chair seats and other furniture. Caning material is derived from the skin of rattan vines grown mostly in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Some vines reach 500 feet in length. One of the earliest woven chair seats is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art […]

The ‘i’ and the ‘me’ are terms central to the social philosophy of George Herbert Mead, one of the biggest influences on the development of the branch of sociology called symbolic-interactionism. The terms refer to the psychology of the person.

In Mead’s understanding, the ‘me’ is the socialised aspect of the person. It is what is […]

A belt sander is a machine used to quickly sand down wood and other materials for finishing purposes. It consists of an electrical motor that turns a pair of drums on which a seamless loop of sandpaper is mounted. Belt sanders can be either hand-held, where the sander is moved over the material, or […]

Erotic massage is the use of massage techniques for erotic. Widely practiced by couples as part of lovemaking. For example, instead of draping the subject’s body with towels, an erotic massage is usually conducted with the subject naked and undraped. Areas of the body such as the areas around the groin and intimate parts of […]

A status shift requires a conversion experience, acquiring a new and overwhelming primary identity, such as becoming a “born again” Christian. Some statuses are mutually exclusive, like black and white, or male and female. Other statuses aren’t mutually exclusive, but contextual; people can be both black and Hispanic, or both a mother and a […]

A bean bag is a sealed bag containing dried beans or PVC pellets, with various applications.

Games

Bean Bag, sometimes called Cornhole in the Ohio Valley of the United States, is a game similar to horseshoes and quoits, played with bean bags and two goals.

Footbag (also hacky sack) is a type of ball-shaped bean bag […]

Jeremy Broun is a British woodworker, furniture designer maker, speaker, and writer.

Broun’s furniture is innovative in the use of technique and form. His Caterpillar Rocking chair
in 1984 ‘is visually stunning, a good combination of colour, structure and practicality… and has the advantage of being a truly original idea : just as Saarinen and his pedestal chairs […]

A destination spa is a business establishment which people visit for personal health, life enhancement, fitness, personal care treatments such as massages, facials, in a resort setting. Destination spas offer an all-inclusive program that includes facilitated fitness classes, healthy cuisine, educational classes and seminars as well as similar services to a beauty salon or a […]

Effleurage is a massage stroke used to warm up the muscle before deep tissue work using petrissage.

This is a soothing, stroking movement used at the beginning and the end of the facial massage. It is also used as a linking move between the different strokes and movements.

Effleurage can be firm or light without dragging the […]

Neo-Reichian massage or release is a system based on theories developed by Wilhelm Reich. Practitioners locate and dissolve “holding patterns” (also called “body armoring”). Reich theorized that obstructions to orgone energy cause neuroses and most physical disorders. Muscular contractions (body armor) in various parts of the body manifest such blockages.

In addition to strict Neo-Reichians, the […]

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat is a nursery rhyme.

Rhyme

Pussy cat, pussy cat,

Where have you been?

I’ve been to London to visit the Queen.

Pussy cat, pussy cat,

What did you do there?

I chased a little mouse right under the chair.

The last line sometimes sung as:

I frightened a little mouse, under her chair.

A cantilever chair has no back legs, relying for support on the properties of the material from which it is made. This famous form was pioneered by several people, but was officially designed by Mart Stam in 1926, and remains an important example of 20th century design.

Another designer of Cantilever chair design was Hungarian […]

Pamela Hodgson was the first Registered Massage Therapist in the Canadian province of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador), where she founded a practice in 1979. A founding member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Massage Therapists’ Association (NLMTA) and its first president, she also become the first Registrar of the NL Massage Therapy Board (NLMTB) following […]

This article is about the type of wheel. For the fictional weapon called a “caster,” see Spellgun.

For caster sugar see sugar.

For other uses of castor, see castor.

See also: Caster (Fate Stay Night), an anime character

A caster (or castor) is a type of wheel mounted with an offset steering pivot such that the wheel will […]

In computer science, the sleeping barber problem is a classic inter-process communication and synchronization problem between multiple operating system processes. The problem is analogous to that of keeping a barber working when there are customers, resting when there are none and doing so in an orderly manner. The barber and his customers represent […]

Red Hot + Country (or RH+C) was the follow-up to No Alternative in the Red Hot Series of compilation albums. This compilation featured music from the classic country and classic rock genres performed by an assortment of seasoned old and new country-western artists.

RH+C received two Grammy nominations following its release. A live show was held […]

Angiomotin is a 675-residue protein that increases the random migration of endothelial cells as well as the migration of endothelial cells toward growth factors.

In the presence of angiostatin, endothelial cells that overexpress angiomotin exhibit a significant reduction in migration toward growth factors as well as an inability to form tubules in vitro. These observations are […]

An office chair, or desk chair, is a chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is generally comfortable and adjustable and can swivel 360 degrees.

History
With the advent of railroad in the mid-1800s, businesses began to expand beyond the traditional model of a family business with little emphasis on […]

Full metal can refer to:

Full metal jacket bullet, a bullet that is encased in a copper-coated steel or gilding metal jacket

Full Metal Jacket, a 1987 film by Stanley Kubrick

Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, a Capcom mecha fighting game, sequel to Armored Warriors

Full Metal Panic!, a manga/anime series.

Fullmetal Alchemist, a manga/anime series.

Full Metal, the main […]

Type may refer to:

In computing:

Data type, collection of values used for computations

Type system, defines a programming language’s response to data types

Type theory, basis for the study of type systems

In mathematics:

Type (model theory)

Type or Arity, the number of operands a function takes

Type, any proposition or set in the Intuitionistic type theory

In sociology:

Ideal type

Normal type

Typification

Other:

Type (band), name […]

A rocking chair or rocker is a chair with two curved bands of wood (also known as rockers) attached to the bottom of the legs (one on the left two legs and one on the right two legs). This gives the chair contact with the floor at only two points granting the occupant the ability […]

Egg chair

Designer : Arne Jacobsen

Date : 1958

Country : Denmark

Materials : Steel frame. Fabric cover.

Style/Tradition : Modernist

Dimensions: (WxDxH)

Colours : originally red, (now variable)

The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen. It is manufactured by Fritz Hansen.

The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style, where there was no fear of […]

The Telemix, also called a hybrid lift, is a relatively new innovation in the world of ski lifts. The lift was first introduced by Poma, a French lift manufacturer. The lift is based around a detachable chairlift, where chairs are detached from the lift cable in stations to allow a high line speed, but safe […]

The Western School of Health and Business is a private, diploma granting institution based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with branch campuses in both Pittsburgh and Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

Program Offerings
The programs offered at the Western School include:

Medical Technology Degree Programs (AST)

Anesthesia Technology

Diagnostic Medical Sonography II

Medical Assistant Specialization

Radiography

Business Degree Programs (ASB)

Paralegal Specialization

Business Administration

Diploma Program

Criminal Justice

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Medical Assisting

Medical Office […]