Matches trick

But serfs, peasants, and even free tradespersons were no match for the heavily equipped noble who had been trained in arms since early childhood. Thus in 1381, when these classes revolted against the English ruling class, some carried only sticks, some swords covered with rust, some merely axes and others bows more reddened with age and smoke than old ivory, many of their arrows had only one plume. The leaders of the rebellion were tricked and the followers soon routed. 

Here s a neat trick to amaze friends and family members. Challenge someone to make a sugar cube catch on fire. For safety s sake hold the sugar cube with tongs and place a lit match or a candle under it. See Figure 4.1. 

In any multiphase liquid, stability is a paramount concern. Thermodynamics drives clumping of dispersed components, and this is sometimes enhanced by flow. However, tricks for stabilizing suspensions are as old as the inks of Egypt. Electrostatic and steric stabilization are the most common. By matching the dielectric prc effie s, sdrrie pafticle-fluid combinations can be found that are inherently stable. A more detailed discussion of suspension stabilization is deferred to Chapter 7. 

This paper is organized as follows. Sec. 2 provides the background to the kernel-based learning methods and kernel trick. Sec. 3 introduces a linear matched subspace and its kernel version. The orthogonal subspace detector is defined in Sec. 4 as well as its kernel version. In Sec. 5 we describe the conventional spectral matched filter ad its kernel version in the feature space and reformulate the expression in terms of the kernel function using the kernel trick. Finally, in Sec. 6 the adaptive subspace detector and its kernel version are introduced. Performance comparison between the conventional and the kernel versions of these algorithms is provided in Sec. 7 and conclusions are given in Sec. 8. 

This trick can be used to fix a deficiency in the DNA length calculator from the previous section. Previous versions of this script naively treated the entire PASTA file as a single DNA sequence. However, a PASTA file usually contains entries for multiple sequences. With pattern matching, the description lines can be identified and the sequence IDs extracted, allowing for the length of each sequence to be printed out separately. 

There s a common misconception that the partial vacuum needed to accomplish this trick occurs because oxygen is used up as the match burns. Oxygen is indeed used up, but it s replaced by the products of combustion carbon dioxide and water vapor. It is the cooling of the warm gases that reduces the pressure. 

Amorce is a French word that means cap, primer, detonator, or fuse, terms that differ from the English usage of amorce used to describe the toy caps used in toy pistols or thrown down sharply in play. They contain extremely small quantities (around Img) of shock sensitive explosive mixtures of potassium chlorate and arsenic monosulphide or silver fulminate. Trick matches are toys that are extremely difficult to blow out. 

You ve no doubt heard scores of old wives tales and scientific advice for slicing onions without tears. The most farfetched include holding a match between your teeth and actually chewing on a raw onion The real trick is keeping irritants away from your face. 

---