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Gyr or gyr can mean:

• Gyr, abbreviation for gigayear (i.e. 10 years or a billion years)
• Phoenix Goodyear Airport (IATA code: GYR), an airport in Arizona, United States
• Gyrfalcon, a species of bird of prey
• Gyr (cattle), a Zebu breed of cattle

• GIR (disambiguation)
• gyro (disambiguation)
• gyre

Mebanazine (trade name Actomol) is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) of the hydrazine chemical class that was previously used as an antidepressant in the 1960s, but has since been discontinued.

Ischnocolus is a genus of spider in the family Theraphosidae.

Ryabenko is a Slavic surname that may refer to

• Aleksandr Ryabenko – several people
• Konstantin Ryabenko (born 1983), Ukrainian ice hockey player
• Vasily Ryabenko (born 1934), Soviet footballer

Swarming is the process by which a new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees. In the prime swarm, about 60% of the worker bees leave the original hive location with the old queen. This swarm can contain thousands to tens of thousands of bees. Swarming is mainly a spring phenomenon, usually within a two- or three-week period depending on the locale, but occasional swarms can happen throughout the producing season. Secondary afterswarms may happen but are rare. Afterswarms are usually smaller and are accompanied by one or more virgin queens. Sometimes a beehive will swarm in succession until it is almost totally depleted of workers.

Swarming is the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies. In the process of swarming the original single colony reproduces to two and sometimes more colonies. For instance, one species of honey bee that participates in such swarming behavior is Apis cerana. The reproduction swarms of this species settle 20–30 m away from the natal nest for a few days and will then depart for a new nest site after getting information from scout bees. Scout bees search for suitable cavities in which to construct the swarm’s home. Successful scouts will then come back and report the location of suitable nesting sites to the other bees.

Military swarming is a battlefield tactic designed to overwhelm or saturate the defenses of the principal target or objective. On the other-hand, defenders can overcome attempts at swarming, by launching counter-swarming measures that are designed to neutralize or otherwise repel such attacks.

Military swarming is often encountered in asymmetric warfare where opposing forces are not of the same size, or capacity. In such situations, swarming involves the use of a decentralized force against an opponent, in a manner that emphasizes mobility, communication, unit autonomy and coordination or synchronization. Historically military forces have used the principles of swarming without really examining them explicitly, but there is now active research in consciously examining military doctrines that draw ideas from swarming. In nature and nonmilitary situations, there are other various forms of swarming. Biologically driven forms are often complex adaptive systems, but have no central planning, simple individual rules, and nondeterministic behavior that may or may not evolve with the situation.

Current military explorations into swarming address the spectrum of military operations, from strategic through tactical. An expert group evaluated swarming's role in the "revolution in military affairs" or force transformation. They observed that military swarming is primarily tactical, sometimes operational and rarely strategic, and is a complement to other efforts rather than a replacement for them. Swarming is a logical extension of network-centric warfare, but the networks needed to make swarming routine will be available around 2010-2011. At present, the networking for swarming is only available in specific contexts.

McIndoe may refer to:

• Alan McIndoe (born 1964), Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s
• John McIndoe (printer) (1858-1916), New Zealand printer, father of Archibald and John.
  • Archibald McIndoe CBE FRCS (1900–1960), pioneering New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II
  • John McIndoe (artist) (1898-1995), New Zealand artist and printer
• John McIndoe (born 1948), British singer, guitarist and actor
• Michael McIndoe (born 1980), Scottish professional footballer who currently plays for Coventry City
• Walter D. McIndoe (1819–1872), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• Wayne McIndoe (born 1972), field hockey player

Abiogenesis (Brit.: or ) or biopoiesis or OoL (Origins of Life), is the natural process of life arising from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. It is thought to have occurred on Earth between 3.8 and 4.1 billion years ago. Abiogenesis is studied through a combination of laboratory experiments and extrapolation from the characteristics of modern organisms, and aims to determine how pre-life chemical reactions gave rise to life on Earth.

The study of abiogenesis involves geophysical, chemical, and biological considerations, with more recent approaches attempting a synthesis of all three. Many approaches investigate how self-replicating molecules, or their components, came into existence. It is generally thought that current life on Earth is descended from an RNA world, although RNA-based life may not have been the first life to have existed. The classic Miller–Urey experiment and similar research demonstrated that most amino acids, the basic chemical constituents of the proteins used in all living organisms, can be synthesized from inorganic compounds under conditions intended to replicate those of the early Earth. Various external sources of energy that may have triggered these reactions have been proposed, including lightning and radiation. Other approaches ("metabolism-first" hypotheses) focus on understanding how catalysis in chemical systems on the early Earth might have provided the precursor molecules necessary for self-replication. Complex organic molecules have been found in the Solar System and in interstellar space, and these molecules may have provided starting material for the development of life on Earth.

The panspermia hypothesis alternatively suggests that microscopic life was distributed to the early Earth by meteoroids, asteroids and other small Solar System bodies and that life may exist throughout the Universe. It is speculated that the biochemistry of life may have begun shortly after the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, during a habitable epoch when the age of the universe was only 10 to 17 million years.

• The panspermia hypothesis therefore answers questions of where, not how, life came to be; it only postulates that life may have originated in a locale outside the Earth.

Nonetheless, Earth remains the only place in the Universe known to harbor life, and fossil evidence from the Earth supplies most studies of abiogenesis. The age of the Earth is about 4.54 billion years; the earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates from at least 3.5 billion years ago, and possibly as early as the Eoarchean Era, after a geological crust started to solidify following the earlier molten Hadean Eon. Microbial mat fossils have been found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia. Other early physical evidence of biogenic substances includes graphite discovered in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in southwestern Greenland, as well as "remains of biotic life" found in 4.1 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia. According to one of the researchers, "If life arose relatively quickly on Earth … then it could be common in the universe."

Noron-l'Abbaye is a commune in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

The Sanigs were a tribe inhabiting Western Georgian/ Abkhazia during antiquity. Their ethnic identity is obscure and is the subject of a controversy. According to Georgian sources they were of Georgian, rather than Northwest Caucasian stock. They are first attested in the works of Pliny, Arrian and Memnon of Heraclea. Some scholars consider them to be Zans (ancestors of Mingrelian and Laz peoples), while others maintain that they were proto-Svans. There is also a consideration that they may have been somewhat similar to the Zygii tribe. According to Arrian, they inhabited the area around Sebastopolis (modern Sukhumi). In favour of the Sanigs Kartvelian (either Zan or Svan) origin, it is important to mention some modern Georgian surnames such as: Sanikidze, Sanikiani, Sanigiani, Sanaia.

Microdiscus is a genus of fungi in the Helotiales order. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the order is unknown ( incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any family.

Vergeer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Esther Vergeer (born 1981), Dutch wheelchair tennis player
• Hein Vergeer (born 1961), Dutch speed skater

Udattawa is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.

In taxonomy, Thermocladium is a genus of the Thermoproteaceae.

Beires is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

Caban may refer to:

• Caban, former brand of Canadian retailer Club Monaco
• Cavan (unit), Philippines measure of weight and volume, also spelled Caban
• Operation Caban, 1979 military operation in French Central Africa
• Caban Island, part of Tingloy municipality, Philippines
• Caban, multi-use centre in Brynrefail, Gwynedd, Wales

Tuam , is a town in Ireland and the second largest settlement in County Galway. It is situated west of the midlands of Ireland, approximately north of Galway city. Human existence in the area dates to the Bronze Age while the historic period dates from the 6th century. The town became increasingly important in the 11th and 12th centuries in political and religious aspects of Ireland. The market based layout of the town and square indicates the importance of commerce.

Tuam was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Calliocloa is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Catanyol is a portmanteau of the words ( Catalan) and ( Spanish). It is used in a pejorative sense to refer to the mixed variety of the Catalan language, written or spoken, produced by the influence of the Spanish language in Catalonia.

There are authors who value the existence of Catanyol as a positive sociolinguistic phenomenon when it originates from Spanish speakers who learn Catalan as adults, while others consider that over a long period it could cause Catalan to become a dialect of Spanish.

Fanni may refer to:

• Rod Fanni, a French soccer player
• Fanni (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee that has been featured in several books and documentaries