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Pak Kum-hui
Pak or PAK may refer to: Places * Pakistan (country code PAK) * Pak, Afghanistan * Pak Island, in the Admiralty Islands group of Papua New Guinea * Pak Tea House, a café in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Arts and entertainment * PAK (band), an American band * Perfect All-Kill, a music chart achievement in South Korea * Pak, Nintendo's sensational spelling of the word "pack" as a name for their game media and accessories: ** Controller Pak, the Nintendo 64's memory card ** Expansion Pak, a RAM add-on for Nintendo 64 ** Game Pak, game cartridges designed for early Nintendo systems ** Option Pak, any of a number of special attachments for the Nintendo DS ** Rumble Pak, a haptic feedback device ** Transfer Pak, a data-transfer device ** Tremor Pak, a third-party Rumble Pak People * Pak (Korean surname), or Park * Pak (creator), formerly Murat Pak, digital artist, cryptocurrency investor, and programmer * B. J. Pak (born 1974), Korean-American attorney and politician * Bo Hi Pak (1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to India–Pakistan border, the east, Afghanistan to Durand Line, the west, Iran to Iran–Pakistan border, the southwest, and China to China–Pakistan border, the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Pak
Gary Pak (born 1952) is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaii. Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers. Biography Gary Pak was born and raised in Hawaii. Pak graduated from Boston University with a BA and from University of Hawaii with an MA and a PhD. Growing up in Hawaii, Pak said his first language is Pidgin English. "My culture is from Hawaii; my parents’ and grandparents’ generations helped create that culture", he said during an interview with the Magazine of the University of Hawaii. Some of Pak's novels are based on the true stories from his family. His grandparents fled from Korea during World War II and came to the United States; in 1905, his grandmother worked on a sugarcane plantation at Hawaii. His novel ''A Ricepaper Airplane'' is based on an incident related with his mum in the setting of a sugarcane plantation. In his short story collection ''Language of the Geckos and Other Stories'', Pak's memorable p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panhellenic Liberation Movement
The Panhellenic Liberation Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Απελευθερωτικό Κίνημα), also known by its acronym PAK (ΠΑΚ), was one of the many anti-dictatorial movement organisations that campaigned against the 1967–1974 military regime of Greece. It was established in 1968 in Sweden by the exiled Andreas Papandreou. History PAK toured the world rallying opposition to the military regime and aiming to create awareness about the political situation in Greece. Its campaign in Sweden was particularly successful. On February 28, 1968, Papandreou gave a famous speech at the Club of Greek Immigrants (Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Μεταναστών). Later on, a manifesto was published, entitled “A text-book and the Internal Political Net.” The leader of the PAK in Greece was Giannis Alevras. Its campaign in Sweden was particularly successful. PAK was also highly critical of the alleged dependence of Greece on foreign powers, namely the USA. Its state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pak Language (other)
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Pak may refer to either of these two languages: * one of the names (better spelled ''Päk'') given to the Lemerig language * the Pak-Tong language See also * Languages of Pakistan Pakistan is a multilingual country with dozens of languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family. Urdu is the national language and the lingua fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pak Airways
Pakistan Airways also known as "Pak Air" or "Pak Airways", was an airline from PakistanPak Air Retrieved 3 November 2010. with its headquarters in . The company was founded in 1948 and ceased again in 1949, following a series of air accidents. Accidents The airline was involved in four air crashes: * 10 May 1948 at , Iraq. No fatalities. * 26 November 1948: First air crash of a Pakistani airline in the country, near , |
P21 Activated Kinase
p21 activated kinases (PAKs) are members of a family of enzymes. They serve as targets for the small GTP binding proteins CDC42 and Rac and have been implicated in a wide range of biological activities. Members include: * PAK1, regulating cell motility and morphology * PAK2, possibly playing a role in apoptosis * PAK3, possibly for dendritic development and for the rapid cytoskeletal reorganization in dendritic spines associated with synaptic plasticity * PAK4, a mediator of filopodia formation * PAK5, a mediator of filopodia formation * PAK6 Serine/threonine-protein kinase PAK 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''PAK6'' gene In biology, the word gene (from , ; "... Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''gene ..., involved in cytoskeleton rearrangement References External linksPAKInfo with links in thCell Migration Gateway Human proteins {{Protein-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panzerabwehrkanone
''Panzerabwehrkanone'', usually referred to with the acronym Pak, is the German language term for anti-tank gun. Before and during World War II, the German Army produced a series of 13 anti-tank guns which they designated Panzerabwehrkanone, i.e. Pak. In addition they produced one weapon they designated an anti-tank rifle, which is generally considered to actually be an anti-tank gun; and one gun they designated Panzerabwehrwerfer, PAW, the anti-tank launcher. Description In military terminology, a gun is a weapon too heavy to be hand held when fired. These weapons ranged from a weight of to a weight of . The smallest caliber was and the largest was . Over the six-year course of World War II the armor of the tanks steadily improved, so in order to be effective the size of the projectile had to increase. A larger projectile required a heavier weapon. All of these guns were meant to be towed. The earlier ones were light weight enough to be moved by hand, over short distances, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PAK (file Format)
This is a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension it is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format name or abbreviation. Many operating systems do not limit filenames to one extension shorter than 4 characters, as was common with some operating systems that supported the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system. Examples of operating systems that do not impose this limit include Unix-like systems, and Microsoft Windows NT, 95- 98, and ME which have no three character limit on extensions for 32-bit or 64-bit applications on file systems other than pre-Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5 versions of the FAT file system. Some filenames are given extensions longer than three characters. While MS-DOS and NT always treat the suffix after the last period in a file's name as its extension, in UNIX-like systems, the final period does not necessarily mean that the text after the last period is the file's extension. Some file formats, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yangjin Pak
Yangjin Pak, or Pak Yangjin, is an archaeologist and Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea. Education Pak received his BA degree in Archaeology and Art History in 1984 from Seoul National University and his MA and PhD degrees in Anthropology in 1992 and 1996, respectively, from Harvard University in the United States. At Harvard, Yangjin Pak was one of the last graduate students of Professor Kwang-chih Chang. Career Pak has conducted archaeological research on the northern provinces of China and Korean Peninsula. His research interests include Chinese archaeology, especially Bronze Age cultures in the northern frontiers of China; archaeology of northeast China; prehistoric and early historical archaeology of Korea; social complexity; cultural, ethnic, and gender identities; and relation between archaeology and contemporary societies. Pak was a post-doctoral fellow at Korea Institute, Harvard University in 1995-1996 and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ty Pak
Ty Pak (born Tae-Yong Pak in 1938) is a writer and speaker on Korean/Asian American affairs and literature. Biography Born in Korea shortly before World War II, Pak witnessed Japanese colonial rule, Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, its division during subsequent U.S. and Soviet occupation, and the trauma of the Korean War in his early childhood and adolescent years, receiving his law degree from Seoul National University in 1961. In 1957 he started working as a reporter for ''The Stars and Stripes,'' and in 1958 for the Korean English dailies ''The Korean Republic'' and ''The Korea Times'', until 1965 when he emigrated to the United States. After earning his Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1969 he taught in the English Department at the University of Hawaii from 1970 to 1987. His first collection of short stories, ''Guilt Payment'' (1983), has been used as a textbook at many US colleges. His other books include ''Moonbay'' (1999), in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SuChin Pak
SuChin Pak ( ko, 박수진, born August 15, 1976) is a South Korean-born American television news correspondent and podcaster, best known from her early days working for MTV News. She joined MTV News as a correspondent in May 2001. Life and career Born in Seoul, South Korea, Pak immigrated along with her parents to California when she was five years old. She grew up in Union City, California, a suburb southeast of San Francisco. Her parents own a small restaurant in downtown Oakland, California. Pak never planned on a career in television. While attending James Logan High School, she volunteered for the YMCA program Youth and Government, an organization aimed at involving and educating young people in the political process. She was also a member of the school's forensics team, in which she did expository speaking. In 1992, she placed 8th in the state of California. She was interviewed for the news by KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco for the show ''Straight Talk 'N Tee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
