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QX (magazine), QX
QX may refer to: Arts and media * ''QX'' (magazine), Scandinavia * ''QX'' (British magazine), England * CFQX-FM, a Canadian country music radio station Business * QX Metals * Quality of Experience * Horizon Air (IATA airline designator: QX) Computing * Epson QX-10 and QX-16, microcomputers * QX/V32c, QX/4232 and QX/4232bis, a series of modems made by Microcom * Alternative name for the IBM Quantum Experience Science * ''q'', the probability of death of a person aged ''x'' years, before reaching the age ''x'' + 1; see life expectancy * QX, a disease of oysters caused by the ''Marteilia'' parasite * Duponol QX, otherwise known as Sodium dodecyl sulfate Vehicles * Q-type Queens car (New York City Subway car) * Infiniti QX, a luxury sports utility vehicle * Nissan Maxima (UK: QX), a large car built in the 1990s Other uses * QX, part of the Q3A Panel house series of prefabricated buildings * QX1, QX2, etc., a series of music sequencer A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QX (magazine)
''QX'' started in 1995 with the aim to create communication platforms for the LGBT-community in Sweden and Scandinavia. It is published in Swedish language, Swedish monthly by QX Förlag AB and is the largest magazine of its kind in the region. ''QX GayMap Stockholm'' is a printed summer guide in English to the Stockholm gay scene. The printed map has a distribution of 40,000 copies. ''QX'' Events ''QX'' arranges the yearly award-ceremony Gaygalan Awards, handing out prizes for LGBT-achievements since 1999. In 2004, the gala was broadcast for the first time on Sveriges Television when it was held at Hamburger Börs, Stockholm, Hamburger Börs with Annika Lantz as the host. QX also currently rules the franchise of ''Mr Gay Sweden'' and has a sponsorship with the Stockholm Pride, Stockholm Pride Agency. Online ''QX'' runs the Internet community ''Qruiser'', which has over 100,000 users. It is the largest community for LGBT people in Scandinavia. There are versions in Swedish lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Expectancy
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, current age, and other demographic factors like sex. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways. ''Cohort'' LEB is the mean length of life of a birth cohort (all individuals born in a given year) and can be computed only for cohorts born so long ago that all their members have died. ''Period'' LEB is the mean length of life of a hypothetical cohort assumed to be exposed, from birth through death, to the mortality rates observed at a given year. National LEB figures reported by national agencies and international organizations for human populations are estimates of ''period'' LEB. In the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, human LEB was 26 years; in 2010, world LEB was 67.2 years. In recent years, LEB in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) is 49, while LEB in Japan is 83. The combination of high infant mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q3A Panel House
Q3A is an abbreviation for a type of three, four and five storey prefabricated buildings constructed in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s. The letter "Q" in the word stands for "Querwandbau" (cross wall construction). Description In a Q3A panel house, the walls are constructed entirely from concrete blocks, while the ceiling consists of multiple concrete plates that were placed perpendicular to, and on top of the wall elements. This explains the source of the "cross wall construction" name. The flat roof construction is the most visible difference between the Q3A series and other East Germany buildings of its time. Q3A homes are equipped with a furnace for heating, and a balcony for use by tenants was also provided in approximately half the cases. In later years (after the fall of the Berlin Wall and German Reunification), most houses were retrofitted with additional balconies. The concrete blocks and ceiling elements of the first houses were manufactured at an industrial plant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nissan Maxima
The Nissan Maxima is a full-size car manufactured and marketed by Nissan and offered as Nissan's flagship sedan primarily in North America, the Middle East, and China — and currently in its eighth generation. Having debuted for model year 1982 as the Datsun Maxima, it replaced the earlier Datsun 810. The name ''Maxima'' dates to model year 1981 when Datsun marketed the upscale 810 as the ''810 Maxima'' in North America. Like the 810, early versions of the Maxima had their origins in the Datsun/Nissan Bluebird. It is renamed to Nissan Maxima when the Datsun brand was phased out for model year 1985. The Maxima was marketed as an upscale alternative to the Altima and prior to 1993, the Stanza, distinguished by features such as a premium interior and V6 engine. Most Maximas were built in Oppama, Japan, until North American assembly began in Smyrna, Tennessee for model year 2004. In some markets beyond North America, the ''Maxima'' name has also been used on variations of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infiniti QX
Infiniti QX may refer to any of the following SUV models: * Infiniti QX4, mid-size luxury SUV * Infiniti QX30, subcompact luxury crossover * Infiniti QX50, compact luxury crossover * Infiniti QX56, full-size luxury SUV * Infiniti QX60, mid-size luxury crossover * Infiniti QX70, mid-size luxury crossover * Infiniti QX80 The Infiniti QX80 (formerly called the Infiniti QX56 until 2013) is a full-size luxury SUV marketed by Nissan's luxury division Infiniti. The first-generation QX56 was built in the United States, and is based on the first-generation Armada. The ..., full-size luxury SUV {{Set index article, cars QX Sport utility vehicles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q-type Queens Car (New York City Subway Car)
The Q-type and QX were a New York City Subway car class originally built by the Osgood-Bradley, Brill, Laconia, and Jewett car companies, and rebuilt in 1938 by the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) from former BU cars. __TOC__ History The Q-types were built for elevated railway service to the 1939 New York World's Fair, though used in both Flushing and Astoria service. They were rebuilt from BU cars in the 1200 and 1400 series, elevated rolling stock originally built in 1903 and 1907. There were 30 three-car Q sets numbered 1600–1629 A-B-C, and 13 two-car QX sets numbered 1630–1642 A-B. The Q sets were arranged in three-car sets with the center car as a trailer, while the QX sets were arranged as married pairs with a motor car and a control trailer. Involved in this conversion were all remaining 1400 series cars that had not been rebuilt to the 1923 C-type conversion, saved for 2 cars that had been independently rebuilt following an accident in 1910. The r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), sometimes written sodium laurilsulfate, is an organic compound with the formula . It is an anionic surfactant used in many cleaning and hygiene products. This compound is the sodium salt of the 12-carbon an organosulfate. Its hydrocarbon tail combined with a polar " headgroup" give the compound amphiphilic properties that make it useful as a detergent. SDS is also component of mixtures produced from inexpensive coconut and palm oils. SDS is a common component of many domestic cleaning, personal hygiene and cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food products, as well as of industrial and commercial cleaning and product formulations. Physicochemical properties The critical micelle concentration (CMC) in water at 25 °C is 8.2 mM, and the aggregation number at this concentration is usually considered to be about 62. The micelle ionization fraction (α) is around 0.3 (or 30%). Applications Cleaning and hygiene SDS is main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marteilia
''Marteilia'' is a protozoan genus of organisms that are parasites of bivalves. It causes QX disease in Sydney rock oysters and Aber disease in European flat oysters. After being infected by ''Marteilia'', bivalves lose pigmentation in their visceral tissue and become emaciated (Carrasco, Green, & Itoh, 2015). History In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a huge decline in European flat oyster (''Ostrea edulis'') population in Brittany, France. This had a huge socioeconomic impact in Europe. '' Marteilia refringens'' was discovered to be the cause of this decline in oyster (Grizel et al., 1974). Around the same time, '' Marteilia sydneyi'' was also found to be causing mortalities in Sydney rock oyster (''Saccostrea glomerate'') in Australia (Perkins & Wolf, 1976). There has been some success in breeding strains of Sydney rock oyster that are resistant to Marteilia ('QX disease'). Morphology ''Marteilia'' has a very peculiar morphology. The outermost cell is the primar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM Quantum Experience
The IBM Quantum Composer and the IBM Quantum Lab (previously known collectively as the IBM Quantum Experience) form an online platform allowing public and premium access to cloud-based quantum computing services provided by IBM Quantum. This includes access to a set of IBM's prototype quantum processors, a set of tutorials on quantum computation, and access to an interactive textbook. As of February 2021, there are over 20 devices on the service, six of which are freely available for the public. This service can be used to run algorithms and experiments, and explore tutorials and simulations around what might be possible with quantum computing. IBM's quantum processors are made up of superconducting transmon qubits, located in dilution refrigerators at the IBM Research headquarters at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Users interact with a quantum processor through the quantum circuit model of computation. Circuits can be created either using graphically with the Quantum Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
QX (British Magazine)
''QX Magazine'' was a free LGBTQ weekly magazine distributed at most LGBTQ spaces across London and the UK. The magazine was based in London. As a free magazine, it hads a high proportion of advertising space for revenue. Although the magazine included arts reviews, articles on issues affecting the LGBTQ community, its main focus was the club and bar scene of the capital. QX's main feature was its photographic galleries of revellers from the previews weekend. It also infamously featured often explicit adverts for male escorts in its back pages. Formerly aimed exclusively at gay men, the magazine had more recently shifted its focus to include the whole spectrum of the LGBTQ, with a diverse range of featured cover stars. Issues of the magazine were available for download in pdf Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of applicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microcom
Microcom, Inc., was a major modem vendor during the 1980s, although never as popular as the "big three", Hayes, U.S. Robotics (USR) and Telebit. Nevertheless, Microcom holds an important place in modem history for introducing the MNP error-correction and compression protocols, which were widely used under license by most modem manufacturers in the 1990s. The company went public in 1987. Compaq purchased publicly outstanding shares of the company in 1997. History and products Microcom was founded in 1980 by James M. Dow from Data General. In the mid-1980s several companies introduced new modems with various "high-speed" features in order to differentiate themselves from the growing legion of Hayes 1200 bit/s clones that were flooding into the market. Developing such a protocol was not all that easy, and generally required a fairly powerful and expensive microcontroller to handle the modulation. For companies with limited resources, entering this market was difficult. Micr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epson QX-10
The Epson QX-10 is a microcomputer running CP/M or TPM-III (CP/M-80 compatible) which was introduced in 1983. It was based on a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, running at 4 MHz, provided up to 256 KB of RAM organized in four switchable banks, and included a separate graphics processor chip ( µPD7220) manufactured by NEC to provide advanced graphics capabilities. In the USA and Canada, two versions were launched; a basic CP/M configuration with 64 KB RAM and the HASCI configuration with 256 KB RAM and the special HASCI keyboard to be used with the bundled application suite, called Valdocs. TPM-III was used for Valdocs and some copy protected programs like Logo Professor. The European and Japanese versions were CP/M configurations with 256 KB RAM and a graphical Basic interpreter. The machine had internal extension slots, which could be used for extra serial ports, network cards or third party extensions like an Intel 8088 processor, adding MS-DOS compatibility. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
