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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.
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
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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
Usage examples of "mcindoe".
Funhouse, where jokers and nats and aces have enjoyed all the top joker cabaret acts for more than two decades.
Even here the ghettoes persist jokers tend to sit with jokers, nats with nats, aces with aces.
If he still has his ace powers, he will be an invaluable ally when the nats try to crush us.
The nats were still circling, though, still hitting the Wall and retreating again, like wasps butting against a glass door.
Screamed with the sudden death of the mindvoices and their wailing pain, screamed with the nats I knew were dying.
The nats realized that their strategy had been blown to hell and that they were likely to die here.
The demons landed and tore the guns from the hands of the nats even as the soldiers fired on them.
And in the payback department, the nats have handed us jokers a world-class IOU.
My own creed is distressingly simple -I believe that jokers and aces and nats are all just men and women and ought to be treated as such.
We talked for a long time, about jokers and aces and nats, and violence and nonviolence and war and peace, about brotherhood and revenge and turning the other cheek and taking care of your own, and in the end we settled nothing.
Despite that, today you find Hindu and Muslim and Sikh living side by side on the same street, and jokers and nats and even a few pathetic deuces sharing the same hideous slums.
This is a time for hard truths, and the first of those is that many nats are disgusted by jokers.
Two more back there, nats to the eye, though the scrawny youth leaning on the stained wall next to the radiator had an odd look to him.
The bloodbath in Berlin was instigated by a group that included jokers, aces, and nats, and we would do well to remember that and remind the world of it forcefully.