El Niño
El Niño A warm-water current which periodically flows southwards along the coast of Ecuador. It is associated with the
Southern Oscillation (these effects are collectively known as an El Niño—Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, event) and with climatic effects throughout the Pacific region. A similar phenomenon may also occur in the Atlantic. Approximately once every seven years, during the Christmas season (the name refers to the Christ child), prevailing trade winds weaken and the
Equatorial countercurrent strengthens. Warm surface waters, normally driven westward by the wind to form a deep layer off Indonesia, flow eastwards to overlie the cold waters of the
Peru current. In exceptional years, e.g. 1891, 1925, 1953, 1972–3, 1982–3, 1986–7, 1994–5, and 1997–8 the extent to which the upwelling of the nutrient-rich cold waters is inhibited causes the death of a large proportion of the plankton population and a decline in the numbers of surface fish.
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YAP, TAZ, and Yorkie: a conserved family of signal-responsive transcriptional coregulators in animal development and human disease.(Yes-associated protein)(transcriptional coactivator )(Report)
Magazine article from: Biochemistry and Cell Biology; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...years ago, the chicken WW-domain protein YAP (Yes-associated protein or YAP65) was...yeast 2-hybrid screening recovered mouse YAP as a transcriptional coactivator able to...al. 1999). In the following year, the YAP paralog TAZ (transcriptional coactivator...
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Yap Unveils SDK for BlackBerry Applications at 2009 WES.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 5/20/2009; 700+ words
; Yap, developer of the world's first fully automated speech...plug-ins necessary to link to and pass audio through Yap's fully automated speech-to-text platform. Through the Yap SDK, developers and ISVs can now voice-power mobile...
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Yap International Inc., a VoIP Technology Company, Provides Corporate Update.
PR Newswire; 3/11/2005; 700+ words
; Yap International Inc. announced today that it...the terms of the agreement STS will assist Yap International in accessing both equity and...technology. As a result of the agreement with STS, Yap International is targeting a US $500,000...
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Yap Announces Release of iPhone SDK at Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.(Conference news)
Business Wire; 6/8/2009; 700+ words
; SDK capitalizes on Yap's fully automated speech-to-text platform...iPhone and iPod touch SAN FRANCISCO -- Yap, developer of the world's first fully...enablement of iPhone applications. The Yap SDK for the iPhone gives developers a simple...
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Odonata of Yap, Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia (1).
Magazine article from: Pacific Science; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Fifteen species of Odonata are recorded from Yap, Micronesia--two Zygoptera and 13 Anisoptera. None is endemic to Yap. Hemicordulia lulico occurs elsewhere only...Micronesia only from a single male collected in Yap by R. J. Goss in 1950. Six of the breeding...
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Yap - curiosity never killed this cat!
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 4/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Maizura New Straits Times 04-21-2002 Yap - curiosity never killed this cat! Byline...things that have suffered at the hands of Yap Wang Han. INTAN MAIZURA seeks him out to...full story. Pictures by IBRAHIM JUSOH. YAP Wang Han has always been curious. As a...
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Net2Phone's YAP Products to be Distributed Through Tech Data.
Business Wire; 4/26/2000; 700+ words
; ...begin to distribute the Net2Phone's new YAP (Your Alternative Phone) Internet telephony...and the Middle East, will distribute the YAP hardware products to office and computer superstores. Net2Phone's YAP hardware line consists of a series of innovative...
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Net2Phone to Launch "YAP - Your Alternative Phone" Internet Telephony Products: New Line of Hardware to Simplify Making Internet Phone Calls.
Business Wire; 4/11/2000; 700+ words
; ...calls. The new hardware line is called "YAP - Your Alternative Phone," and will be...amp; Sullivan. "The introduction of YAP products is the push of IP telephony technology...been anticipating for a period of time." YAP Business solutions will provide multi...
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The mandate for Yap. (Pacific island)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...The story of the small Pacific island of Yap shows the rather rough interface between...which hindsight allows - in this case with Yap - is never an accurate reflection of real...pressure of other events in 1920-21 that Yap never got anywhere near to the centre of...
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Bush declares Yap "major disaster area".
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 4/13/2004; 622 words
; 13 APRIL 2004 YAP (Pacnews) --- The federal government...Typhoon Sudal-related emergency services in Yap after US President Bush on Sunday (12 Apr...Bush had ordered federal disaster aid for Yap, Associated Press reports. Sudal's eye...
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Yap
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Yap ETHNONYM: Uap Orientation Identification. Yap is one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia...of the U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The Yap State includes Yap proper, Ulithi, Woleai, and other atolls...
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yap
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
yap / yap / • v. ( yapped , yap·ping ) [ intr. ] give a sharp, shrill bark: the dachshunds yapped at his heels. ∎ inf. talk at length in an irritating manner. • n. 1. a sharp, shrill bark...
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Yap Mandate
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
YAP MANDATE YAP MANDATE. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) ending World...Pacific islands, President Woodrow Wilson objected to the inclusion of Yap, a strategically significant cable relay island in the Carolines. The...
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Kāśyapīya
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
Kāśyapīya. A school that originated some three to four centuries after the death of the Buddha and flourished in north-west...
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Micronesia
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...and Kosrae, 10 p.m. = noon GMT; in Yap and Chuuk, 9 p.m. = noon GMT Longest...800 miles) east to west from Kosrae to Yap Land boundaries: None Coastline: 6,112...Pohnpei and 305 centimeters (120 inches) in Yap. Pohnpei is one of the wettest places on...
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