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- soldier and dictator who ruled Guatemala for 13 years (1931-44). [1 Related Articles]
- ubiquinone
- any of several members of a series of organic compounds belonging to a class called quinones. Widely distributed in plants, animals, and microorganisms, ubiquinones function in conjunction with enzymes in cellular respiration (i.e., oxidation-reduction processes). The naturally occurring ubiquinones differ ... [4 Related Articles]
- ubiquitin
- (from the article "Ciechanover, Aaron J.") ...that they discovered involves a series of carefully orchestrated steps by which cells degrade, or destroy, the proteins that no longer serve any useful purpose. In the first step a molecule called ubiquitin (from the Latin ubique, ...
- ubiquitin ligase
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...the means by which the receptor interacts with a hormone. A team led by Ning Zheng of the University of Washington School of Medicine studied the hormone receptor, TIR1, a type of enzyme known as a ubiquitin ligase, and its ...
- ubiquitous computing
- (from the article "computer") Some researchers call this trend ubiquitous computing or pervasive computing. Ubiquitous computing would extend the increasingly networked world and the powerful capabilities of distributed computing-i.e., the sharing of computations among microprocessors connected over a network. (The use of multiple microprocessors ...
- Ubon Ratchathani
- town, eastern Thailand, on the Khorat Plateau. It lies near the confluence of the Mun and Chi Rivers and is a major trading centre for rice, cattle, and tobacco. A road leads east to Pakxe (Laos) on the Mekong River.
- UBS AG
- major bank formed in 1998 by the merger of two of Switzerland's largest banks, the Swiss Bank Corporation and the Union Bank of Switzerland. [1 Related Articles]
- UBV system
- system of classifying stars by spectral type, based on photometric measurements of the ultraviolet (U), blue (B), and visual (V [yellow]) magnitudes. These magnitudes are measured through filters sensitive to light at wavelengths of 360, 420, and 540 nanometres, respectively. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ubykh language
- (from the article "Caucasian languages") The Abkhazo-Adyghian group consists of the Abkhaz, Abaza, Adyghian, Kabardian, and Ubykh languages. Adyghians and Kabardians are often considered members of a larger, Circassian group. Abkhaz, with about 90,000 speakers, is spoken in Abkhazia (the southern slopes of the western ...
- uc bey
- (from the article "Ottoman Empire") Ottoman dynasts were transformed from simple tribal leaders to border princes (uc beys) and ghazi leaders under Seljuq and then II-Khanid suzerainty in the 13th and early 14th centuries. With the capture of Bursa, Orhan had been able to declare ...
- Ucayali River
- headwater of the Amazon, formed by the junction of the Apurimac and Urubamba rivers in east-central Peru. The Ucayali meanders northward from this junction for about 910 miles (1,465 km) through a densely forested floodplain east of the Andes to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Uccello, Paolo
- Florentine painter whose work attempted uniquely to reconcile two distinct artistic styles-the essentially decorative late Gothic and the new heroic style of the early Renaissance. Probably his most famous paintings are three panels representing "The Battle of San Romano" (c. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ucchi-pillaiyar Kovil
- (from the article "Ganapatya") ...minor deity to be propitiated at the beginning of all important undertakings and religious ceremonies. The sect erected temples dedicated to Ganesa, the largest of which is the Ucchi-pillaiyar Kovil, a rock-cut temple near Tiruchchirappalli in Tamil Nadu state.
- uchastok hospital
- (from the article "hospital") The Soviet Union took a somewhat different approach. In its thinly populated rural areas, general hospitals, called uchastok hospitals, served populations as small as 2,000 to 15,000 persons. These 15- to 100-bed general hospitals occupied the same premises and employed ...
- Uchida, Shungiku
- In Japan, as elsewhere, success was part luck, part talent, and part hard work. For singer, dancer, author, and cartoonist Shungiku Uchida, it also included a calculated flouting of social proprieties to shock her devotees. In 1994 she won Japan's ...
- Uchimura Kanzo
- Japanese Christian who was an important formative influence on many writers and intellectual leaders of modern Japan.
- Uchqurghon hydroelectric station
- (from the article "Naryn River") ...River flows westward for 430 miles (700 km), receiving many tributaries and draining an area of 22,540 square miles (58,370 square km). High water occurs in May. The reservoirs of the Toktogul and Uchqurghon hydroelectric stations help regulate the Naryn's ...
- Ucicky, Gustav
- Austrian film director known for historical and nationalistic German films done during Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
- Ucka, Mount
- (from the article "Istria") ...a limestone plateau, much of which lacks water owing to its karst topography. The northeast section consists of the mountains of the Dinaric Alps, with a maximum elevation of 4,596 feet (1,401 m) at Mount Ucka. These modest heights slope ...
- Ucko, Peter John
- British archaeologist brought about a revolution in the way that archaeological study was approached and founded the World Archaeological Congress (WAC). In the 1980s Ucko, then British secretary of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (IUPPS), was asked ...
- ud
- stringed musical instrument prominent in medieval and modern Islamic music. It was the parent of the European lute. The 'ud has a deep, pear-shaped body; a fretless fingerboard; and a relatively shorter neck and somewhat less acutely bent-back pegbox than ... [6 Related Articles]
- Uda
- 59th emperor of Japan, from 887 to 897. [4 Related Articles]
- Udaipur
- (from the article "Udaipur") ...rail junction, Udaipur is an agricultural distributing centre. Its factories produce chemicals, asbestos, and clay. Cloth, embroidery, ivory, and lacquerware handicrafts are also manufactured there. Udaipur has several hospitals, a museum, and Mohanlal Sukhadia University (established in 1962).Akbar
- Udaipur
- city, southern Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It lies in the hills of the Aravali Range. Udaipur ("City of Sunrise") was made the capital of the princely state of Udaipur in 1568 by Maharana Udai Singh after the sack of Chittaurgarh. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Udall, Morris King
- American politician (b. June 15, 1922, St. John's, Ariz.--d. Dec. 12, 1998, Washington, D.C.), was a liberal Democrat who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 30 years and in 1976 was runner-up to Jimmy Carter for his party's ...
- Udall, Nicholas
- English playwright, translator, and schoolmaster who wrote the first known English comedy, Ralph Roister Doister.
- Udana
- (from the article "anga") 5. Udana ("inspired utterance"), special sayings of the Buddha in prose or verse (also the name of a work in the Pali Khuddaka Nikaya ["Short Collection"]).
- Udasi
- monastic followers of Srichand (1494-1612?), the elder son of Nanak (1469-1539), the first Guru and the founder of Sikhism. The authoritative text of the Udasi movement is the Matra ("Discipline"), a hymn of 78 verses attributed to ... [1 Related Articles]
- udatta
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...the location of the original accent be inviolate if the Vedic texts were to be preserved accurately. The original Vedic accent occurs as a three-syllable pattern: the central syllable, called udatta, receives the main accent; the preceding syllable, anudatta, is ...
- Udayadityavarman II
- (from the article "Angkor") ...later history of the city, the central temples were completely architectural creations (i.e., pyramid temples), such as the Phimeanakas of Suryavarman I (reigned c. 1000-50); the Baphuon of Udayadityavarman II (reigned 1050-66); and the Buddhist temple of Bayon, which was ...
- Udayagiri
- village and archaeological site, south-central Orissa state, eastern India. In the village are located several Jaina and Buddhist rock-cut caves. One of these is a double-storied cave with ranges of cells cut into three sides of an open courtyard. Inscriptions ... [3 Related Articles]
- Udayanacarya
- Hindu logician who attempted to reconcile the views held by the two major schools of logic out of which developed the Navya Nyaya ("New Nyaya") school of "right" reasoning, which is still recognized and followed in some regions of India. [2 Related Articles]
- Udayesvara
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...unfortunately, they are considerably damaged, judging from the remains, they must have been very elegant structures. The best preserved and easily the finest bhumija temple is the Udayesvara (1059-82), situated at Udaipur in Madhya Pradesh. The sikhara, based on a ...
- Udden Grade Scale
- (from the article "sedimentary rock") ...scale, each size grade differs from its predecessor by the constant ratio of 1:2; each size class has a specific class name used to refer to the particles included within it. This millimetre, or Udden-Wentworth, scale is a geometric grain-size ...
- udder
- (from the article "dairying") ...produced by the cow from her blood, and a large amount of food is necessary for maintenance of a high producing cow. The products of digestion and absorption enter the blood and are carried to the udder. There the raw ...
- Uddyotakara
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") Although as early as the commentators Prasastapaha (5th century AD) and Uddyotakara (7th century AD) the authors of the Nyaya-Vaisesika schools used each other's doctrines and the fusion of the two schools was well on its way, the two schools ...
- Udegey
- (from the article "Amur River") The Amur River basin originally was populated by hunting and cattle-breeding nomadic people. North of the river these peoples included the Buryat, Sakha (Yakut), Nanai, Nivkh (Gilyak), Udegey, and Orok, with various Mongol and Manchu groups south of the river. ...
- Uderzo, Albert
- (from the article "Goscinny, Rene") ...and later worked on children's books in New York City. In 1954 he returned to Paris to direct a press agency and soon became a writer for the "Lucky Luke" comic strip. In 1957 he met Uderzo, a cartoonist, and ...
- Udhagamandalam
- town, western Tamil Nadu state, southern India. It is situated in the Nilgiri Hills at about 7,500 feet (2,300 metres) above sea level, sheltered by several peaks, including Doda Betta (8,652 feet [2,637 metres]), the highest point in Tamil Nadu. ...
- Udhampur
- town in Jammu and Kashmir state, northern India, in the Kashmir region of the Indian subcontinent. It is situated at an elevation of 2,500 feet (760 metres). The town is named for Udham Singh, eldest son of Gulab Singh, the ...
- Udi language
- (from the article "Caucasian languages") ...Tabasaran (about 90,000); Agul (about 12,000); Rutul (about 15,000); Tsakhur (about 11,000); Archi (fewer than 1,000); Kryz (about 6,000); Budukh (about 2,000); Khinalug (about 1,500); and Udi (about 3,700). The majority of Lezgi languages are spoken in southern Dagestan, but ...
- Udi-Nsukka Plateau
- pair of plateaus in south-central Nigeria that form a nearly continuous elevated area. The Nsukka Plateau, which forms the main eastward-facing escarpment, extends about 80 miles (130 km) from Nsukka in the north to Enugu in the south. The Udi ... [1 Related Articles]
- Udina, Antonio
- (from the article "Romance languages") Many Romance dialects have virtually ceased to be spoken in the 20th century. Of these, Dalmatian is the most striking, its last known speaker, one Tuone Udaina (Italian Antonio Udina), having been blown up by a land mine in 1898. ...
- Udine
- city, Friuli-Venezia Giulia regione, northeastern Italy. It lies northwest of Trieste, near the border with Slovenia. Possibly the site of a Roman frontier station called Utina, the city was the seat of the Roman Catholic patriarchate of Aquileia from 1238 ...
- Udipi
- (from the article "Karnataka Coast") ...and sandy. The region forms a transitional zone between Maharashtra and Kerala states. The southern, or Mangalore, region has plantations of coconut and casuarina; the northern, or Udipi, region produces rice and pulse (legumes). Industries are mostly located at Mangalore, ...
- Udmurt
- (from the article "Slavic religion") ...Wooden buildings (the so-called continae) in which the faithful Baltic Slavs used to assemble for amusement, to deliberate, or to cook food have been observed in the 20th century among the Votyaks, the Cheremis, and the Mordvins but especially among ...
- Udmurt language
- (from the article "Finno-Ugric languages") ...at different periods in history. Loanwords from Indo-Iranian seem to be the oldest. Finnish borrowed from Baltic languages in remote times and later from Germanic languages and Russian. Mari, Udmurt, and the Ob-Ugric languages are rich in Turkic loanwords. Hungarian ...
- Udmurtiya
- republic in west-central Russia. It lies partly in the basin of the middle Kama River, which flows along part of its southeastern boundary. The larger part of Udmurtiya lies in the drainage area of the Cheptsa and Kilmez rivers, which ...
- Udon Thani
- town, northeastern Thailand, near the northern (Laotian) border. Udon Thani is the major town of the northern Khorat Plateau and is served by road, rail, and air. The surrounding area produces rice, livestock, timber, and freshwater fish. Pop. (1986 est.) ...
- UDP-glucose
- (from the article "metabolism") the products are UDP-glucose and pyrophosphate. In bacteria, fungi, and plants, ATP, CTP, or GTP serves instead of UTP. In all cases the nucleoside diphosphate glucose (NDP-glucose) thus synthesized can donate glucose to the terminal glucose of a polysaccharide chain, ...
- Udrem Zom, Mount
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...mountain mass) of Saraghrara (24,111 feet [7,349 metres]). Another line of imposing mountains, which includes Mounts Langar (23,162 feet [7,060 metres]), Shachaur (23,346 feet [7,116 metres]), Udrem Zom (23,376 feet [7,125 metres]), and Nadir Shah Zhara (23,376 feet [7,125 metres]), ...
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