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A pulse, in physiology, is the throbbing of arteries resulting from heartbeat. Pulse, The Pulse or Pulses may also refer to: Botany * Pulse (legume), any agriculturally significant annual leguminous food crop, such as peas, beans, lentils, and chickpeas Electronics and physics * Pulse (physics), a single disturbance through a transmission medium * Pulse (signal processing), a brief change from a baseline value ** Pulse dialing, of a telephone Books and publications * Pulse (magazine), ''Pulse'' (magazine), a medical professional's magazine * Pulse! (magazine), ''Pulse!'' (magazine), a music magazine * Pulse (Augustus), a character in the Marvel Comics universe * Pulse (short story collection), ''Pulse'' (short story collection), a short story collection by Julian Barnes * ''Pulse'', a book by Robert Frenay * The Pulse, the signal transmitted from cell phones that made people go crazy in Stephen King's novel ''Cell (novel), Cell'' * The Pulse (comics), ''The Pulse'' (comics), a ...
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Pulse
In medicine, the pulse refers to the rhythmic pulsations (expansion and contraction) of an artery in response to the cardiac cycle (heartbeat). The pulse may be felt ( palpated) in any place that allows an artery to be compressed near the surface of the body close to the skin, such as at the neck ( carotid artery), wrist (radial artery or ulnar artery), at the groin (femoral artery), behind the knee ( popliteal artery), near the ankle joint ( posterior tibial artery), and on foot (dorsalis pedis artery). The pulse is most commonly measured at the wrist or neck for adults and at the brachial artery (inner upper arm between the shoulder and elbow) for infants and very young children. A sphygmograph is an instrument for measuring the pulse. Physiology Claudius Galen was perhaps the first physiologist to describe the pulse. The pulse is an expedient tactile method of determination of systolic blood pressure to a trained observer. Diastolic blood pressure is non-palpable and ...
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A Stomp Odyssey
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ...
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WPLW-FM
WPLW-FM (96.9 MHz, "Pulse FM") is a contemporary hit radio station licensed to Goldsboro, North Carolina, which is east of the Research Triangle. The station is owned by Curtis Media Group. Its studios are located in Raleigh, and its transmitter is near Princeton, North Carolina. Its programming is carried on four translators: 98.7 FM (W254AS) in Rolesville, North Carolina, 103.7 FM (W279EJ) in Hillsborough, North Carolina, 104.7 FM (W284CP) in Raleigh, North Carolina, and 104.7 FM (W284CD) in Youngsville, North Carolina, all relayed by WQDR-FM HD2. History Originally WGBR-FM at 99.7 FM and then 93.3 FM, this Goldsboro station for most of its early history originally simulcast its AM counterpart. It switched its call letters to WEQR in 1949. During much of the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the station, under the nickname "Q96", underwent several format changes over the years including soft rock (1978–1980), contemporary rock (1980–1984) and adult contemporary (to 1987) until ...
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WKXU (FM)
WKXU (102.5 Hertz, MHz) is a classic hits formatted commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Hillsborough, North Carolina, and serving the Research Triangle, including Durham, North Carolina, Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh. The station simulcasts the "KIX 102, Carolina's Greatest Hits" programming of hit music from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s that originates from WKIX-FM (102.9 FM Broadcasting, FM) in Raleigh. The station is owned by New Century Media Group. According to FCC ownership filings, New Century Media Group is 100% owned by Donald W. Curtis, chairman and CEO of Curtis Media Group. WKXU has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,500 watts and is considered a List of North American broadcast station classes, Class A FM station. By contrast, some Raleigh-area stations, such as WNCB and WRDU run 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off Bivins Road north of Durham. History The station sign-on, signed on from Louisburg, North Carolina, ...
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WKJO (FM)
WKJO (102.3 MHz) is a classic hits formatted radio station licensed to Smithfield, North Carolina. The station is owned by Curtis Media Group, and primarily simulcasts the "KIX 102, Carolina's Greatest Hits" programming of hit music from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s that originates from WKIX-FM (102.9) in Raleigh. WKJO's transmitter tower is northwest of Smithfield in rural Clayton, North Carolina. History WOKN was urban contemporary before picking up the callsign WEQR and adult contemporary format from 96.9 FM in 1990. WEQR simulcast WEQQ in Pinetops with a hot adult contemporary format and the name "The Double Q". Beasley Broadcast Group sold WEQR to Curtis Media in 1996. WEQQ became WKTC in 1998 and WEQR continued with the format until 2001, when the station began simulcasting WKXU; the country music format and callsign WKIX moved from 96.9 FM. Branding during this time included Kix 102.3 and Country 102. The station swapped callsigns with 97.7 FM in Kinston in 2006 ...
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Mesa, Arizona
Mesa ( ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The population was 504,258 at the 2020 census. It is the List of municipalities in Arizona, third-most populous city in Arizona, after Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, Tucson, the List of United States cities by population, 37th-most populous city in the U.S., and the most populous city that is not a county seat (except for independent cities Washington, D.C. and Baltimore which are not part of any county). It is the most populous city in the East Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), East Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area. It borders Tempe, Arizona, Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community on the north, Chandler, Arizona, Chandler and Gilbert, Arizona, Gilbert on the south along with Queen Creek, Arizona, Queen Creek, and Apache Junction on the east. At least ten colleges and universities are located in Mesa, as is the Mesa Arizona Temple, one of the first LDS temples constr ...
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KVIT
KVIT (88.7 FM) is a radio station licensed in Chandler, Arizona, United States. KVIT is licensed to the East Valley Institute of Technology. Its studios are located at EVIT's main facilities in Mesa, while the transmitter is to the south near Maricopa. The station is branded as 88.7 The Pulse. History The station was licensed to the Arizona Community Media Foundation, then-operator of Radio Phoenix, but in early 2015, AZCMF sold the station to the East Valley Institute of Technology, which already owned KVIT (90.7 FM) in Apache Junction, for $700,000. On August 11, 2015, KPNG came to air and replaced KVIT and its then-translator K224CJ. While EVIT maintained ownership of KVIT for another six years, K224CJ, which was independently owned the whole time, now carries KAZG AM 1440. In 2021, EVIT sold the Apache Junction facility to Desert Soul Media, Inc., which had acquired Radio Phoenix earlier in the year; when the sale closed on December 9, the KVIT call letters remained ...
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Pulse! Radio
Pulse Radio is the official radio station of the London School of Economics and Political Science Students' Union. Its studios are located within the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the School's Aldwych campus in Westminster, London and it broadcasts online through the Pulse Player, as well as across campus in the Students' Union. Pulse forms part of the LSESU Media Group alongside '' The Beaver'' newspaper, Clare Market Review and LooSE TV. The station is managed by an elected Executive Committee, which is a subsidiary of the Union, and is headed by the Station Manager. It is staffed by student volunteers who act as Disc jockeys, technicians, and producers, and is funded by the LSESU, advertising revenue, and donations. The station broadcasts in three slots from October to December January to March and April to June each year, with vacations in between the School's Michaelmas, Lent and Summer Terms. Overnight and during these vacations, the station broadcasts a pre-set ...
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Pulse 2
Pulse 2 was an Independent Local Radio station serving Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale areas from studios in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020. Background The station was previously known as Pennine Radio, Classic Gold, Great Yorkshire Gold, Great Yorkshire Radio, 1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire's Big AM, Pennine's Big AM, West Yorkshire's Classic Gold and Pulse Classic Gold and under previous ownership was part of the Yorkshire Radio Network. When, in 1989, Pennine Radio was split into Pennine FM and Classic Gold, the AM service became part of a network, initially with sister stations in Hull and Sheffield. In 1995, the Bradford-based radio station became a stand-alone operation owned by The Radio Partnership, which had purchased Pulse FM (now Pulse 1) for £4.6 million, though it continued to lease the name Great Yorkshir ...
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Pulse 1
Hits Radio West Yorkshire, formerly Pulse 1, is an Independent Local Radio station based in Leeds, England, owned and operated by Bauer Radio, Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Hits Radio network. It broadcasts to West Yorkshire. As of September 2024, the station has a weekly audience of 170,000 listeners according to RAJAR. History The station originally launched in 1975 as a Bradford-based service called Pennine Radio (radio station), Pennine Radio. Pennine Radio In 1984, the station won the licence for the neighbouring West Yorkshire areas of Kirklees and Calderdale and in December of that year the station began broadcasting to all of the western half of the county. In 1987, the station was part of the Yorkshire Radio Network which also owned Viking FM and Hallam FM, and the following year saw the station's MW frequencies start to be used for a Yorkshire-wide station called Classic Gold. The FM service was renamed to Pennine FM. Yorkshire Radio Network was bought out ...
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