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- (from the article "research and development") In principle, university laboratories are completely independent and free to investigate anything that interests them. In practice, many of them are anxious to keep in touch with industry and to focus their research effort on problems with practical applications. Similarly, ...
- university library
- (from the article "library") ...founded in 1903. It is the largest library in India and holds a fine collection of rare books and manuscripts. In some countries, such as Iceland and Israel, the national library is combined with a university library.
- University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
- (from the article "Las Vegas") About a dozen hospitals serve the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, part of the University of Nevada system, is a teaching hospital with an emphasis on pulmonary and cardiac disease; it has grown to ...
- University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
- a pioneer school in the progressive education movement in the United States. The original University Elementary School was founded in Chicago in 1896 by American educator John Dewey as a research and demonstration centre for the Department of Pedagogy at ... [1 Related Articles]
- University of Michigan Stadium
- (from the article "stadium") ...Tsentraly (Lenin) Stadium, in Moscow (103,000); Odsal Stadium, in Bradford, England (102,500); Aztec Stadium, in Mexico City (115,000); the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California, U.S. (104,091); and Michigan Stadium, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. (107,501). These figures of course denote ...
- university press
- (from the article "publishing, history of") The increase in the number of universities was accompanied by an increase in the number of university presses. The purpose of these presses is to serve the needs of scholarship-i.e., to publish specialized material that a purely commercial firm would ...
- university wits
- the notable group of pioneer English dramatists who wrote during the last 15 years of the 16th century and who transformed the native interlude and chronicle play with their plays of quality and diversity. [3 Related Articles]
- University-in-Exile
- (from the article "Dewey, John") ...of University Professors in 1915, and the next year he became a charter member of the first teachers' union in New York City. He helped found the New School for Social Research in 1919 and the University-in-Exile in 1933, established ...
- UNIX
- (from the article "Digital Equipment Corporation") ...(Virtual Memory System), became popular among software developers, giving VAX users a large selection of software applications. In the early 1980s, Digital also helped to develop a version of the UNIX operating system to run on the VAX, in part ...
- unjust enrichment
- (from the article "Roman law") ...by A from B of what would otherwise be an unjustified enrichment of B at A's expense, such as when A had mistakenly paid B something that was not due (condictio indebiti). This notion of unjust enrichment as a source ...
- Unkei
- Japanese sculptor of the Late Heian (1086-1185) and early Kamakura (1192-1333) periods, who established a style of Buddhist sculpture that had an immense impact on Japanese art for centuries. [2 Related Articles]
- unknown soldier
- (from the article "Paris") ...Rude sculpted the frieze and the spirited group The Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 (called "La Marseillaise"). On Armistice Day in 1920, the Unknown Soldier was buried under the centre of the arch, and each evening ...
- Unknowns, Tomb of the
- (from the article "Arlington National Cemetery") The cemetery also houses the Tomb of the Unknowns, also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which was established in 1921 as the burial place for the Unknown Soldier of World War I. In 1932 a seven-piece Colorado-Yule ...
- Unkoku school
- (from the article "Sesshu") ...even used his name; these included the great 16th-century master Hasegawa Tohaku, who proudly signed himself Sesshu of the fifth generation. An entire school of Japanese painting, the Unkoku school, devoted itself to continuing his artistic heritage.
- Unkoku Togan
- Japanese painter best remembered as a suiboku-ga ("water-ink painting") artist. He worked in the manner of the 15th-century artist Sesshu at a time when the orthodox style of the Kano school dominated painting.
- Unkrich, Lee
- (from the article "2003: Other Winners") ...Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; music and lyrics by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie LennoxAnimated Feature Film: Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee UnkrichHonorary Award: Blake Edwards
- unlawful assembly
- gathering of persons for the purpose of committing either a crime involving force or a noncriminal act in a manner likely to terrify the public. The extent to which a government penalizes disorderly assemblies often reflects the political value that ...
- Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
- (from the article "Equestrian Sports") The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which U.S. Pres. George W. Bush signed on October 13, provided an exemption for activity that was permitted under the Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978 and amended in 2000. The new law permitted the ...
- unlayered gabbroic complex
- (from the article "gabbro") A lopolith at Duluth, Minn., is a notable exception to the rather arbitrary division between layered and unlayered gabbro complexes. The lower part of this mass has the average composition of an olivine gabbro but is strongly banded, with individual ...
- unleaded gasoline
- (from the article "petroleum refining") ...(149° C [300° F] and 900 RPM). For many years the research octane number was found to be the more accurate measure of engine performance and was usually quoted alone. Since the advent of unleaded fuels in the mid-1970s, however, ...
- unlearning
- (from the article "memory") ...retroactive inhibition, however, not all of the loss need be attributed to competition at the moment of recall. Some of the first list may be lost to memory in learning the second; this is called unlearning. If one is asked ...
- unmanned aerial vehicle
- (from the article "Military Affairs") An Argentine company developed the first-ever unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) produced in South America. Named Yarara, the UAV was designed for reconnaissance missions.aerospace industryaerospace industryUnmanned aerial vehiclesUnmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), ...
- Unnerstad, Edith
- (from the article "children's literature") ...Kullman and Martha Sandwall-Bergstrom are among the few Swedish writers who have used working class industrial backgrounds successfully. Kullman is also a historical novelist. The prolific Edith Unnerstad has written charming family stories, with a touch of fantasy, as has ...
- Unni
- (from the article "Sweden") ...in 830. He was allowed to preach and set up a church in Birka, but the Swedes showed little interest. A second Frankish missionary was forced to flee. In the 930s another archbishop of Hamburg, Unni, undertook a new mission, ...
- Uno Chiyo
- Japanese short-story writer and novelist who became better known for a personal life perceived as scandalous than for the break she made with the Japanese literary scene of the 1920s and '30s. [1 Related Articles]
- Uno Sosuke
- politician who served as prime minister of Japan for 68 days (June 2-Aug. 9, 1989). [2 Related Articles]
- Unocal Corporation
- American petrochemical corporation founded in 1890 with the union of three "wildcatter" companies-the Hardison & Stewart Oil Company, the Sespe Oil Company, and the Torrey Canyon Oil Company. Originally centred in Santa Paula, Calif., it became headquartered in Los Angeles ...
- Unofficial Committee
- (from the article "Russia") ...in war. The early years of his reign saw two short periods of attempted reform. During the first, from 1801 to 1803, the tsar took counsel with four intimate friends, who formed his so-called Unofficial Committee, with the intention of ...
- Unonopsis veneficiorum
- (from the article "Magnoliales") In the upper Amazon region, Indian tribes use an extract from the tree Unonopsis veneficiorum to tip their poison blowgun darts and arrows; this substance has a similar paralyzing effect on humans and other animals to that caused by curare, ...
- unordered partition
- (from the article "combinatorics") ...are called the parts of the partition. The ... for this is the number of ways of putting k - 1 separating marks in the n - 1 spaces between n dots in a row. The theory of ...
- unpredictable drought
- (from the article "drought") 3. Unpredictable drought involves an abnormal rainfall failure; it may occur almost anywhere but is most characteristic of humid and subhumid climates. Usually brief and irregular, it often affects only a relatively small area.
- Unreason, Abbot of
- (from the article "Misrule, Lord of") Scotland had an official similar to the Lord of Misrule, known as the Abbot of Unreason (suppressed in 1555), and both are thought by scholars to be descended from the "king" or "bishop" who presided over the earlier Feast of ...
- unrestricted stopping power
- (from the article "radiation") ...power, is numerically equal to the linear energy transfer and changes smoothly to a constant value, called the Fermi plateau, as the ratio beta approaches unity. The other half, called the unrestricted stopping power, increases without limit, but its effect ...
- unrestricted submarine warfare
- (from the article "international relations") ...the German assaults on neutrals' rights at sea, and the cumulative effect of Allied propaganda and German provocations conjoined to end U.S. neutrality by 1917. On Feb. 4, 1915, Germany declared the waters around the British Isles a war zone ...
- unrounded vowel
- (from the article "rounding") Unrounding is the opposite of rounding; in unrounded vowels the lips are slack or may be drawn back, as in pronouncing the ee in "meet." Generally speaking, front vowels tend to be unrounded and back vowels rounded, and this tendency ...
- Unruh, Fritz von
- dramatist, poet, and novelist, one of the most poetically gifted of the younger German Expressionist writers.
- Unruh, Walther
- (from the article "theatre") ...more than 100 of them had been restored to their former state or else had been redesigned and rebuilt along contemporary lines. The chief innovator in stage design and mechanization was Walther Unruh, whose work is exemplified by the Deutsche ...
- unsaturated acid
- (from the article "fat") ...important to distinguish between the saturated acids (acids containing only single bonds between carbon atoms, such as palmitic or stearic), with relatively high melting temperatures, and the unsaturated acids (acids with one or more pairs of carbon atoms joined by ...
- unsaturated compound
- (from the article "petroleum refining") Two other chemical families that are important in petroleum refining are composed of unsaturated molecules. In unsaturated molecules, not all the valence electrons on a carbon atom are bonded to separate carbon or hydrogen atoms; instead, two or three electrons ...
- unsaturated polymer
- (from the article "industrial polymers, major") Unsaturated polyesters are linear copolymers containing carbon-carbon double bonds that are capable of undergoing further polymerization in the presence of free-radical initiators. The copolyesters are prepared from a dicarboxylic acid or its anhydride (usually phthalic anhydride) and an unsaturated dicarboxylic ...
- unsaturation
- (from the article "chromophore") ...aromatic azo and nitro compounds often are highly coloured and that the colours are diminished or destroyed when the compounds are hydrogenated. The ability of a compound to take up hydrogen, called unsaturation, is caused by the presence of electrons ...
- Unseld, Siegfried
- German publisher (b. Sept. 28, 1924, Ulm, Ger.-d. Oct. 26, 2002, Frankfurt, Ger.), headed the literary giant Suhrkamp Verlag. Unseld was a Nazi Youth leader and served in the navy during World War II. After the war he discovered the ...
- Unser, Al
- American automobile-racing driver from a prestigious family of drivers, who won the Indianapolis 500 four times (1970-71, 1978, 1987).
- Unser, Bobby
- American automobile-racing driver from a family of drivers, who won the Indianapolis 500 three times (1968, 1975, 1981).
- Unsoeld, William F.
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") ...Ridge route. On May 1 James W. Whittaker and the Sherpa Nawang Gombu, nephew of Tenzing Norgay, reached the summit despite high winds. On May 22 four other Americans reached the top. Two of them, William F. Unsoeld and Thomas ...
- unsought good
- (from the article "marketing") Finally, an unsought good is one that a consumer does not know about-or knows about but does not normally think of buying. New products, such as new frozen-food concepts or new communications equipment, are unsought until consumers learn about them ...
- unstructured data
- (from the article "information processing") ...of digital information storage, it is useful to distinguish between "structured" data, such as inventories of objects that can be represented by short symbol strings and numbers, and "unstructured" data, such as the natural-language text of documents or pictorial images. ...
- Unsworth, Barry
- (from the article "English literature") ...urge to look back-at starting points, previous eras, fictional prototypes-was widely evident. The historical novel enjoyed an exceptional heyday. One of its outstanding practitioners was Barry Unsworth, the settings of whose works range from the Ottoman Empire (
- Unsworth, Geoffrey
- (from the article "1972: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Jeremy Larner for The CandidateAdapted Screenplay: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola for The GodfatherCinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth for CabaretArt Direction: Jurgen Kiebach and Rolf Zehetbauer for CabaretOriginal Dramatic Score: Charles Chaplin, Raymond Rasch, Larry Russell for...Oscar for best ...
- Untash-Gal
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...1266 BC), the fourth king of this line, proceeded apace, and his successes were commemorated by his assumption of the title "Expander of the Empire." He was succeeded by his son, Untash-Gal (Untash [d] Gal, or Untash-Huban), a contemporary of ...
- Unter den Linden
- avenue in Berlin, Germany, running eastward from the Brandenburg Gate for nearly a mile. The street is named for the linden (lime) trees that formerly grew along the central promenade and now line the sidewalks. [1 Related Articles]
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