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- Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") movement who developed the style of his master, Utagawa Toyoharu, making it one of the most popular of its day. [1 Related Articles]
- Utah
- constituent state of the United States of America. Mountains, high plateaus, and deserts form most of its landscape. The state's 84,899 square miles (219,889 square kilometres) lie in the heart of the West, with Idaho to the north, Wyoming to the northeast, Colorado to the east, Arizona to the south, ... [14 Related Articles]
- Utah Beach
- the westernmost beach of the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion of World War II. It was assaulted on June 6, 1944 (D-Day of the invasion), by elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division and was taken with relatively few casualties. In the predawn hours of D-Day, units of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Utah Lake
- freshwater lake in Utah county, north-central Utah, U.S. It covers 150 square miles (390 square km) and is 23 miles (37 km) long. Utah Lake drains through the Jordan River into Great Salt Lake to the northwest and is a remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville. It is the site of ...
- Utah prairie dog
- (from the article "prairie dog") ...meet; the white-tailed prairie dog (C. leucurus) is found from eastern Wyoming through intermontane Rocky Mountain valleys to the eastern margin of the Great Basin; the Utah prairie dog (C. parvidens) is restricted to the southern part of that state; and the Mexican prairie ...
- Utah State Development Center
- (from the article "American Fork") ...vegetables, grain, poultry) with some industrial development, notably the Geneva Steel Works, American Fork has become a suburb of Salt Lake City and a centre for high-technology manufactures. The Utah State Development Center (established as the Utah State Training School in 1931), a school for the mentally and physically disabled, ...
- Utah State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Logan, Utah, U.S. It is a comprehensive, land-grant university with about 45 academic departments within colleges of Agriculture, Business, Education, Engineering, Family Life, Natural Resources, Science, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. The school of Graduate Studies coordinates the granting of master's and doctoral ... [1 Related Articles]
- Utah Teapot
- (from the article "computer graphics") ...most computational tasks, which need a three-dimensional representation of the objects composing the image. One standard benchmark for the rendering of computer models into graphical images is the Utah Teapot, created at the University of Utah in 1975. Represented skeletally as a wire-frame image, the Utah Teapot is composed of ...
- Utah War
- (from the article "Salt Lake City") ...a territory in 1850. Salt Lake City was the territorial capital from 1856 to 1896, when it became the capital of the new state. Conflicts between Mormons and U.S. officials led to the so-called Utah War of 1857-58, when General Albert Sidney Johnston's troops marched through the city to establish ...
- Utah, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the seal of the state in the centre.
- Utah, University of
- public, coeducational institution of higher education in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. It is a comprehensive university with many research opportunities and academic programs. Through 16 colleges and schools it offers some 75 undergraduate degree programs and more than 90 graduate degree programs, as well as more than 50 teaching ... [2 Related Articles]
- utai
- (from the article "Noh theatre") ...taiko)-and by a chorus (jiutai) consisting of 8-10 singers. The recitation (utai) is one of the most important elements in the performance. Each portion of the written text carries a prescription of the mode of recitation-as well as of accompanying movement...
- Utamaro
- Japanese printmaker and painter who was one of the greatest artists of the ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") movement; he is known especially for his masterfully composed portraits of sensuous female beauties. [4 Related Articles]
- Ute
- Numic-speaking group of North American Indians originally living in what is now western Colorado and eastern Utah; the latter state is named after them. When the Spanish Father Silvestre Velez de Escalante traversed their territory in 1776 while seeking a route from Santa Fe (now in New Mexico) to the ... [7 Related Articles]
- Ute Peak
- (from the article "Taos") ...feet (3,000 m) above sea level, culminating in Mount Wheeler (13,161 feet [4,011 m]), the highest point in New Mexico. Western Taos county is a plateau region with isolated mountains, including Ute Peak (10,093 feet [3,076 m]). The Rio Grande flows through the Picuris Range in a deep gorge, curving ...
- Utelle
- (from the article "Cote d'Azur") ...departement and extending into southern Var departement. The population is predominantly urban. Traditional inland towns in Alpes-Maritimes include Gourdon, Eze, Utelle, and Peille; many such towns are perched on cliffs. Their streets are narrow and paved with flagstones or cobbles; houses are built of stone and roofed with rounded tiles. ...
- Utembayev, Yerzhan
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...help in the investigation. On August 31, 10 persons, including members of an elite unit of the National Security Committee, were sentenced to long prison terms for their roles in the affair. Yerzhan Utembayev, the former head of the Senate administration, who admitted to having masterminded the murders because Sarsenbayuly ...
- uterine bleeding
- abnormal bleeding from the uterus, which is not related to menstruation. Menstruation is the normal cyclic bleeding that occurs when the egg has been released from the ovary and fertilization has not occurred. Other episodes of bleeding that cannot be considered part of the normal cycle are called dysfunctional uterine ... [2 Related Articles]
- uterine cancer
- a disease characterized by the abnormal growth of cells in the uterus. Cancers affecting the lining of the uterus (endometrium) are the most common cancers of the female reproductive tract. Other uterine cancers, called uterine sarcomas, develop from underlying muscle or connective tissue; they are much rarer. This article focuses ... [1 Related Articles]
- uterine cervix
- lowest region of the uterus; it attaches the uterus to the vagina and provides a passage between the vaginal cavity and the uterine cavity. The cervix, only about 4 centimetres (1.6 inches) long, projects about 2 centimetres into the upper vaginal cavity. The cervical opening into the vagina is called ... [10 Related Articles]
- uterine fibroid
- (from the article "infertility") Uterine fibroids (also called uterine leiomyomata), which occur in one in every four or five American women, are benign tumours that originate from the smooth muscle cells within the muscular wall of the uterus. Fibroids can cause excessive uterine bleeding and pain, as well as a sensation of pressure in ...
- uterine prolapse
- (from the article "parturition") Uterine prolapse, or a sliding of the uterus from its normal position in the pelvic cavity, may result from injuries to the pelvic supporting ligaments and muscles that occur during labour. Usually the diagnosis is made months or even years later, when the patient complains of something protruding from the ...
- uterine sarcoma
- (from the article "uterine cancer") ...by the abnormal growth of cells in the uterus. Cancers affecting the lining of the uterus (endometrium) are the most common cancers of the female reproductive tract. Other uterine cancers, called uterine sarcomas, develop from underlying muscle or connective tissue; they are much rarer. This article focuses on the development, ...
- uterus
- an inverted pear-shaped muscular organ of the female reproductive system, located between the bladder and rectum. It functions to nourish and house the fertilized egg until the unborn child, or offspring, is ready to be delivered. [23 Related Articles]
- Uther Pendragon
- (from the article "dragon") ...on their shields and carved dragons' heads on the prows of their ships. In England before the Norman Conquest, the dragon was chief among the royal ensigns in war, having been instituted as such by Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur. In the 20th century the dragon was officially incorporated ...
- Uthman ibn 'Affan
- third caliph to rule after the death of the Prophet. He centralized the administration of the caliphate and established an official version of the Qur'an. 'Uthman is critically important in Islamic history because his death marked the beginning of open religious and political conflicts within the Islamic community (see fitnah). [11 Related Articles]
- uti possidetis
- (from the article "international law") ...existing countries, it is presumed that the frontiers of the new states will conform to the boundaries of prior internal administrative divisions. This doctrine, known as uti possidetis (Latin: "as you possess"), was established to ensure the stability of newly independent states whose colonial boundaries were often ...
- Utica
- traditionally the oldest Phoenician settlement on the coast of North Africa. It is located near the mouth of the Majardah (French Medjerda, ancient Bagradas) River 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Tunis in modern Tunisia. After its founding in the 8th or 7th century BC, Utica grew rapidly and was ... [2 Related Articles]
- Utica
- city, seat (1798) of Oneida county, central New York, U.S., on the Mohawk River and New York State Canal System, 45 miles (72 km) east of Syracuse. The first settlers were Dutch and Palatinate Germans, and in 1758 the British built Old Fort Schuyler, near the site of an ancient ...
- Utiguri
- (from the article "Byzantine Empire") ...veterans. Worried by Roman naval action on the Danube, which seemed to menace the escape route home, the Kutrigurs broke off the attack, returned north, and found themselves under attack from the Utigurs, a people whose support Justinian's agents had earlier connived at and won by suitable bribes. The two ...
- utile
- (from the article "applied logic") ...z, . . . , that are at issue. Thus for any item x, a real-number quantity is obtained, symbolized # ( x). (Such a measure is called a utility measure, the units are called utiles, and the comparisons or computations involved constitute a preference calculus.) In terms of such ...
- utilidor
- (from the article "Mackenzie River") ...conditions; houses and other buildings are usually placed on wooden piles that are sunk and frozen into the permafrost for stability. One of the distinctive features of the town of Inuvik is a utilidor, a linear boxlike metal container raised slightly above the surface of the ground, in which the ...
- Utilitarian Society
- (from the article "Mill, John Stuart") ...who was also a psychologist, and Claude-Adrien Helvetius, who was noted for his emphasis on physical sensations. Soon after, in 1822-23, Mill established among a few friends the Utilitarian Society, taking the word, as he tells us, from Annals of the Parish, a novel of Scottish country life by John ...
- Utilitarianism
- in normative ethics, a tradition stemming from the late 18th- and 19th-century English philosophers and economists Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill that an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it tends to produce the reverse of happiness-not just the happiness of the performer ... [25 Related Articles]
- utilitas
- (from the article "architecture") The notion that a building is defective unless the spaces provided are adequate and appropriate for their intended usage would seem obvious. Yet the statement itself has been a source of controversy since the 1960s. The main reasons for the controversy are: first, whereas there are seldom exact statistical means ...
- utility and value
- in economics, the determination of the prices of goods and services. [4 Related Articles]
- utility bicycle
- (from the article "bicycle") Most present-day bicycles fit into six main categories: utility, touring, racing, mountain, hybrid, and BMX. Utility bicycles are basic transportation in developing countries, where hundreds of millions are in service. In the developed world, utility bicycles are used by children or by adults for short trips. They have heavy frames, ...
- utility measure
- (from the article "economics") Each household is endowed with definite "tastes" that can be expressed in a series of "utility functions." A utility function (an equation similar to the production function) shows that the pleasure or satisfaction households derive from consumption will depend on the products they purchase and on how they consume these ...
- utility theory
- (from the article "game theory") In the previous example it was tacitly assumed that the players were maximizing their average profits, but in practice players may consider other factors. For example, few people would risk a sure gain of $1,000,000 for an even chance of winning either $3,000,000 or $0, even though the expected (average) ...
- Utkal Plains
- coastal plains in eastern Orissa state, eastern India. Extending over approximately 16,000 sq mi (41,400 sq km) and fronting the Bay of Bengal on the east, the plains are bounded by the Tamilnad Plain on the south, the Lower Ganges Plain on the north, and the Eastern Ghats on the ...
- Utnapishtim
- (from the article "Noah") The story of the Flood has close affinities with Babylonian traditions of apocalyptic floods in which Utnapishtim plays the part corresponding to that of Noah. These mythologies are the source of such features of the biblical Flood story as the building and provisioning of the ark, its flotation, and the ...
- Uto-Aztecan languages
- family of American Indian languages spoken in Mexico, northern Guatemala, and the western United States. The Uto-Aztecan languages are recognized by modern linguists as falling into eight groups, four of which make up the Shoshonean division and three the Sonoran division. The formerly recognized Nahuan division is now generally included ... [4 Related Articles]
- utopia
- an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. Hence "utopian" and "utopianism" are words used to denote visionary reform that tends to be impossibly idealistic. [15 Related Articles]
- Utopia basin
- (from the article "Mars") ...on 30° W longitude), Amazonis Planitia (160° W), and Utopia Planitia (250° W). The only significant relief in this huge area is a large ancient impact basin, informally called the Utopia basin (40° N, 250° W).
- Utopia Planitia
- northern lava plain on the planet Mars that was selected as the landing site of the U.S. Viking 2 planetary probe. Photographs transmitted from the Viking 2 lander, which touched down at 47.97° N, 225.74° W, on September 3, 1976, depicted a boulder-strewn plain that superficially resembles the Viking 1 ... [1 Related Articles]
- utopian literature
- (from the article "More, Sir Thomas") ...and wit established his reputation as one of the foremost humanists. Soon translated into most European languages, Utopia became the ancestor of a new literary genre, the utopian romance.novelsnovelFantasy and prophecy...very utopianism that Wells-mainly in his nonfictional ...
- utopian socialism
- (from the article "socialism") Conservatives who saw the settled life of agricultural society disrupted by the insistent demands of industrialism were as likely as their radical counterparts to be outraged by the self-interested competition of capitalists and the squalor of industrial cities. The radicals distinguished themselves, however, by their commitment to equality and their ...
- Utpala
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") The source literature of this school consists in the Siva-sutra, Vasugupta's Spanda-karika ("Verses on Creation"; 8th-9th centuries), Utpala's Pratyabhijna-sutra ("Aphorisms on Recognition"; c. 900), Abhinavagupta's Paramarthasara ("The Essence of the Highest...
- Utraquist
- any of the spiritual descendants of Jan Hus who believed that the laity, like the clergy, should receive the Eucharist under the forms of both bread and wine (Latin utraque, "each of two"; calix, "chalice"). Unlike the militant Taborites (also followers of Hus), the Utraquists were moderates and maintained amicable ... [6 Related Articles]
- Utrecht
- provincie, central Netherlands, the country's smallest, with an area of 514 square miles (1,331 square km). It extends southward from the narrow Lake Eem, which separates Utrecht provincie from the South Flevoland polder of Flevoland provincie. Utrecht provincie lies between the provincies of Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland (west) and Gelderland (east). ... [2 Related Articles]
- Utrecht
- gemeente (municipality), central Netherlands. It lies along the Kromme Rijn (Winding, or Crooked, Rhine), Oude (Old) Rijn, and Vecht rivers and the Amsterdam-Rijn Canal. Its original Roman name, Trajectum ad Rhenum (Ford on the Rhine), later became Ultrajectum, and then Utrecht. [4 Related Articles]
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