mosquito

any dipterous insect of the family Culicidae: the females have a long proboscis adapted for piercing the skin of man and animals to suck their blood

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mosquito

[mə′skēd·ō]

(invertebrate zoology)

Any member of the dipterous subfamily Culicinae; a slender fragile insect, with long legs, a long slender abdomen, and narrow wings.

mosquito noise

A distortion that appears near crisp edges of objects in MPEG and other video frames that are compressed with the discrete cosine transform (DCT). It occurs at decompression when the decoding engine has to approximate the discarded data by inverting the transform model. The mosquito noise appears as random aliasing in these areas and requires sophisticated detection circuits to eliminate it. As TVs get larger, mosquito noise and other artifacts become more noticeable. See artifact. See also Mosquitotone.

Before and After

The mosquito noise on the left is removed with Algolith's Home Theater 3D Mosquito Noise Reducer appliance. The image is enlarged to show more detail. (Image courtesy of Algolith inc., www.algolith.com)

Mosquitotone

A cellphone ringtone that uses a constant, 14.4 kHz frequency generally only heard by people under 20. Also known as "Teen Buzz" or "Mozzy Tone," it became popular because parents and teachers usually cannot hear the high-pitched tone when the phones are ringing. After 20, most people's ability to hear these higher frequencies begins to decline; however, some aged 50 and older have been known to recognize the ringtone.

Keep Teenagers From Loitering
The Mosquitotone uses a constant 14.4 kHz sound; the idea taken from the modulated 17 kHz tone of the Mosquito sound-emitting device introduced in Wales in 2005 from Compound Security Systems (www.compoundsecurity.co.uk). The Mosquito was designed to prevent teenagers from loitering in the area. After a few minutes, the sound becomes very irritating, and the crowd tends to move to another venue. See ringtone.

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The treaty ratified the 1803 cession of the islands to Nuevo Granada, the Spanish colony that included Colombia, while giving Nicaragua possession of the Mosquito Coast, now Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.

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Roles in such famous productions as The Mosquito Coast, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The Madness of King George and Gosford Park all came after that milestone, as did arguably her most famous part, that of Jane Tennison in the long-running TV crime drama Prime Suspect.

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The goal of this article is to reflect on the issue of cultural contact and to propose that the concept of cultural complementarity be used as way to explain certain cases, such as that between Africans and Amerindians on Cape "Gracias a Dios" on the Mosquito coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

La complementariedad cultural en el surgimiento de los grupos zambos del cabo gracias a dios, en la mosquitia, durante los siglos XVII y XVIII

of Florida) and Larry David Wilson (biology, Miami-Dade College) catalog the amphibians and reptiles in an area known to English speakers as the Mosquito Coast, which was the only part of Central America not conquered by the Spanish.

The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Honduran Mosquitia

At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991): evangelism and rainforest destruction; Medicine Man (1992): Sean Connery and Lorraine Bracco search for a cure to cancer in the rainforest; The Burning Season (TV, 1994): true story of murdered rubber tapper Chico Mendes; The Emerald Forest (1985): kidnapping of American child by Amazon tribe; Mosquito Coast (1986): Harrison Ford and family escape civilization; The Mission (1986): Robert DeNiro in a story based on real experiences of the Jesuits and Guarani Indians; Fitzcarraldo (1982): building an opera house in the Amazon; Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (1986): rescuing humpback whales; Gorillas in the Mist (1988): Sigourney Weaver plays slain zoologist Dian Fossey.

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I led expeditions in various places, including the Sinai Desert and in the jungle in Honduras - on the Mosquito Coast. I have also walked across parts of Peru and was an instructor for Operation Raleigh.

MY OTHER LIFE: Roger Weatherby, chief executive of Weatherbys bank, on expeditions

'The primary reason is I grew up with him, as Han Solo, as Indiana Jones, and eventually he played a role in one of my favourite films, Mosquito Coast.

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Harrison Ford, who filmed The Mosquito Coast in Belize (formerly British Honduras), published a letter in Canada's Globe and Mail in Sept.

DAM CONTROVERSY

They still fish the sea and the freshwater lagoons along what is now known as the Mosquito Coast. They plant small gardens in the rain forest or on the sandy coastal plains, and hunt along the murky rivers of the interior.

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