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The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee , a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...
UGC 9425 (also known as Segner's Wheel) are a pair of interacting galaxies [1] located in the constellation of Boötes, comprising PGC 52283 and PGC 87675, both disk-type galaxies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located 468 million light-years from Earth [ 4 ] and catalogued as Arp 241 by Halton Arp .
The creation of the UGC was first proposed in 1904 in the report of a committee chaired by R. B. Haldane. The UGC was eventually created in 1918, to address a need for a mechanism to channel funds to universities, which had since 1889 received direct Treasury grants, but had suffered from neglect and lack of funding during the First World War. [1]
An example of user-generated content, a personalised sign and objects in the virtual world of Second Life. User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), emerged from the rise of intelligent web services which allow a system's users to create content, such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, and software (e.g. video game mods) and interact with other ...
vv 143, hcg 18, ugc 2140, z 462-37, apg 258, mcg+03-07-037, z 0236.3+1810, arp 258 UGC 2140 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Aries . It was thought to be a compact group of galaxies, catalogued as HCG 18 , but in 1999 the object was found to be a single galaxy with multiple star-forming regions .
The main objectives of the UGC are to coordinate among universities; allocate and disburse government grants to universities and higher educational institutions and take appropriate steps for the promotion and maintenance of standards of higher education in Nepal. UGC allocates and distributes grants to the universities and their campuses.
The University Grants Commission Act, 1956 [1] is an Act of the Parliament of India. [2] The Act is sometimes referred to as "the UGC Act" and, among other things, regulates central assistance for public universities. [3]
In 2016, Kinepolis Group had sold the four Belgian Utopolis cinemas it had happened to acquire when it had taken over Utopia Group to UGC. [2] UGC had already owned three Belgian cinemas (one in Antwerp and two in Brussels) and now more than doubled that number, adding one cinema each in Aarschot, Lommel, Mechelen and Turnhout.